And Maya Gutiérrez, an impassioned marine biologist is - quite unexpectedly - falling in love for the first time. Gustavo Wayãpi, a Nobel Laureate poet from Brazil, struggles to accept the recent murder of his beloved twin brother. Jack Campbell, a photographer for National Geographic, works to capture the beauty of the Arctic before it is gone forever. At the same time, on board a polar icebreaker life continues under the looming shadow of comet UD3. What would happen to Earth's seven billion inhabitants if a similar event were allowed to occur?īen and his indomitable girlfriend Amy Kowalski fly to South America to assemble an international counteraction team, whose notable recruits include Love Mwangi, a UN interpreter and nomad scholar, and Zhen Liu, an extraordinary engineer from China's national space agency. The 150-million-year reign of the dinosaurs ended when an asteroid impact generated more than a billion times the energy of an atomic bomb.

But to individuals who knew better - scientists like Benjamin Schwartz, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies - the threat this eight-kilometer comet posed to the survival of the human race was unthinkable. When dark comet UD3 was spotted near Jupiter's orbit, its existence was largely ignored. For readers of Station Eleven and Good Morning, Midnight comes an electric, heart-pounding novel of love and sacrifice that follows people around the world as they unite to prevent a global catastrophe.

The Effort by Claire Holroyde