The Rising Sea

An alarming rise in the world’s sea levels - much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt - sends Kurt Austin Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they find at the bottom of the East China Sea however is even worse than they imagined: a diabolical plan to upset the Pacific balance of power - and displace as many as a billion people. With a rare alloy unlike anything else a pair of five-hundred-year-old Japanese talismans an assassin so violent even the Yakuza has disowned him and an audacious technological breakthrough the NUMA team must risk everything to head off the coming catastrophe.