Category 7

By Bill H. Evans, Marianna Jameson, Bill / Jameson Evans

Book Overview

A Category 4 hurricane, with winds of up to 155 miles per hour, tears roofs off buildings, smashes windows and doors, and can send floodwaters up to the second floor. Evacuation is suggested for up to six miles inland. Hurricane Katrina was a Category 4 when she made landfall. Hurricane Simone is a Category 7 - the biggest, strongest storm in recorded history. When she hits New York City, skyscrapers will fall. Subways and tunnels will flood. Lower Manhattan and much of Queens and Brooklyn will disappear under more than thirty feet of water. All along the Eastern Seaboard, towns and cities are being evacuated as wind-driven rain lashes the coast and storm surges crash through seawalls. Roads are packed with fleeing motorists whose cars are jammed with every personal possession that can be crammed in, plus family members, friends, and beloved pets. A huge natural disaster is brewing in the Atlantic. Except that Simone isn't natural. She's the product of rogue weather science being wielded by billionaire Carter Thompson as part of a personal vendetta against US President Winslow Benson. Once Carter wanted to bring rain to the desert and feed the starving peoples of the planet. Now he wants to show Benson - and the rest of the world - just how powerful wind and water can be. If technology created Simone, perhaps technology can stop her. It's up to Kate Sherman, once a member of Carter's weather team; and Jake Baxter, a weatherman for the CIA, to try, using a secret US Navy weapon. The catch? It has to be deployed inside the hurricane.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765317354
• ISBN13: 9780765317353
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Forge Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.3" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

Great blockbuster book!

I loved this book. I have to say that I'm surprised by some of the negative reviews, because if you're looking for an absorbing, well-researched thriller with some true substance to it, then this is the book for you. I give the authors points for originality and scope/scale, as one of the book's central characters is the storm itself, Simone. The chapters in Simone's point of view do use more complex, elaborate and dramatic language but there's a reason for that: she's an awesome primordial power, spinning out of control! I also love the fact that the characters are not warm/fuzzy paper dolls who do everything right--they're human beings with conflicting motivations, not candidates for sainthood or the boy scouts. Judge for yourself: get a copy of this book today. The concept is more than timely, since manipulation of the weather by various governments is REAL. K in Florida

Nice thriller with solid weather science - will make a great movie!

With relatives in New Orleans and Florida, and having experienced hurricanes in person, this book was a natural for me. The idea of a "weather thriller" is a stretch, but Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson pulled it off nicely. I read it very quickly and enjoyed it. I can't wait for the movie version. I'm using the book as a gift!

Exciting Thriller

This techno-thriller is a cross between Michael Crighton and Clive Cussler. The characters are real, the situations exciting and the action fast-paced. The USSR and US have long tried to weaponize the weather...in this action-adventure, someone does it, and the fate of New York hangs in the balance. Great work.

Bravo......( I'm buying for all my friends !)

The surge of Hurricane Katrina and it's trail of devastation show the force of Mother Nature compared to the frailty of human life. Weather manipulation sparks a race to master this science that gives superior economic and military strengths. Bill Evans and Mariana Jameson shed insight into such a plausible and captivating novel. Category 7 is a must read.......!

An exciting thriller

Meteorologists especially those working The National Hurricane Center of NOAA are fascinated and frightened by the most powerful storm ever recorded, Hurricane Simone, much more powerful than anything before. The weather experts extrapolate its force as being equivalent to Category 7 when 5 and 4 are compared. The coastal cities are being evacuated by panicking people caught in traffic jams that are endless. New York City is a microcosm of what is anticipated as it lies in a direct path which will leave Manhattan devastated especially the southern tip and Long Island totally under water. US President Winslow Benson feels helpless as there is little he can do except help get people out of the anticipated flood zone. He knows Simone was created by former wealthy idealist Carter Thompson, who once dreamed of feeding the world, but now feels he owes Benson and those who ridiculed him a taste of what wind and rain can wrought. Former Thompson team member meteorologist scientist Kate Sherman and CIA meteorologist Jake Baxter are the only hope to save the East Coast, but their Hail Mary must occur inside the eye of the hurricane. This exciting thriller hooks the audience although the cast of thousands slows down the superstar Simone. The scientific premise behind the story line seems plausible and is easy to understand as Bill Evans and Mariana Jameson incorporate what caused Simone within the story line. Weather Channel fanatics will full appreciate CATEGORY 7 as the two meteorologists struggle to prevent the ultimate act of terrorism, controlling the weather. Harriet Klausner