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Barcode30053003539304
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF HAWK
Title Nearshore : a novel / Steve Hawk.
Author Hawk, Steve, 1955- author
CollectionNEW: Adult Fiction
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
 Paris-Bourbon30053003539304F HAWK8/21/2026 Available

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Personal Name Hawk, Steve, 1955- author
Title Statement Nearshore : a novel / Steve Hawk.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice [New York, N.Y.] : Viking, [2026]
Physical Description 352 pages ; 23 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "Daybreak, West Virginia: A "small" nuclear bomb detonates beside an Appalachia highway. The weapon's explosive yield is meager, the death count blessedly low. And yet-it is history's first act of nuclear terrorism, and it threatens to tilt the world beyond reckoning. Months later, surfer and lifeguard Jamie Palmer is patrolling his domain, a treacherous stretch of wild California coast, when he responds to a mysterious nearshore boating accident that has jettisoned two people overboard. The victims turn out to be Palmer's best friend-a brilliant, renegade Stanford University professor-and the man's teenage son, Luca. The professor drowns, Luca survives-leaving Palmer the boy's guardian. Soon after, Chelsea Wu, a math prodigy and doctoral student, confides to Palmer that she and the professor unearthed a link between a Silicon Valley megacorporation, its sociopathic billionaire founder, and the nuke in West Virginia. When a second device is detonated, this unlikely team-the surfer, the orphan, and the math whiz-must persuade investigators that the bombmakers are not only homegrown, but also hiding in plain sight. An immersive and disturbingly plausible debut, Nearshore delivers a mix of literary suspense and coastal noir. Moving with the speed of a barreling wave, Nearshore also explores deeper clashes: isolation versus community and family, Silicon Valley versus humanity, words versus action, land versus sea"--Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Orphans Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Nuclear terrorism Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Surfers Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Death Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Thrillers (Fiction) lcgft

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