It started with fireballs raining down from the sky & crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously & later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people. For journalists Mike & Phyllis Watson what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water
- one of the compounds upon which life depends
- is turned against them. Finally sea levels begin their inexorable rise. The Kraken Wakes" is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction & ultimately asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive."