Adventures in Love and Flooding
Published by Self-published · Fiction
A romantic action thriller about disaster capitalism, artificial intelligence, and ordinary competence. He crossed an ocean for a woman he had only ever met on a screen, and landed four days before the water came.
ISBN-13: 9798194094882
Who this book is for
A romantic action thriller for readers who want grounded thrillers, genuinely funny romance, and villains who fight with arithmetic rather than speeches.
Table of contents
- Prologue: The Sluice Gate at Midnight
- The Arrival Gate at NAIA
- High Heels and Strobe Lights
- Dinner in Makati, Eyes in the Mirror
- The Rain Begins to Bite
- Uninvited Guests at the Penthouse
- The Secret in the Soundstage
- The German with a Conscience
- The Sinking City
- The Island of White Stones
- Where the Power Flows
- The Snare in the Server Farm
- Bayanihan on the Water
- Breaching the Monolith
- The Current and the Truth
- Epilogue: Sunbreak Over the Bay
Excerpt
The call came at ten past two, which was the hour Benigno Santos had come to think of as belonging to the floodway. Nothing was ever decided at two in the morning. Things were only discovered then, and usually by him. He took the service road with his wipers on the fastest setting they had, which was not fast enough, and which had not been fast enough for four years. The truck was a white DPWH pickup with a bent antenna and a dent in the tailgate from a jeepney in Pasig that had never stopped. Rain came off the windshield in sheets rather than drops. Past the guardrail the Marikina moved in the dark like something with a shoulder.
