The Paper Shelters: A Cyclone Survival Thriller

The strongest cyclone ever recorded has turned without warning. It is heading for the Sundarbans, nine hundred square kilometres of mangrove standing between the Bay of Bengal and four and a half million people. There are no roads. The highest ground in the district is an embankment built by the British and repaired by hand. Commander Arjun Basu has eleven hours. Six scientists are trapped at an isolated weather station and the boat sent to collect them turned back. When Basu's team reaches the station they find the generators running, the computers live, and dinner still warm on the table. Nobody is there. Every radio in the building is repeating one sentence, on a loop, in the voice of a woman who died four years ago. Then the satellites show something that should not be possible. Across the drowning delta, thousands of people are walking east, into the storm, toward the eye. Nobody sent them. Nobody can reach them. Every one of them received the same message on the same morning, telling them exactly where to go. The buildings they are walking to were demolished eight years ago. As the surge comes ashore and the last helicopter leaves, Basu and cyclone scientist Maya Dutta uncover a truth buried since 2019, one that will cost thousands of lives before the water goes down, and that nobody will ever be prosecuted for. Because the most dangerous thing in this storm was never the weather. A gripping, meticulously researched disaster thriller set in the world's largest mangrove forest. Perfect for readers of high-stakes survival fiction, grounded suspense, and impossible-to-put-down thrillers.