The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah

Here, where harsh winds ravaged the ocean’s surface hundreds of feet above them, where the North Atlantic Ocean skirmished with the winding Norwegian Sea, the hostile environment had mostly protected the people of Eysturoy from them. All around, the water wrinkled as merciless weaponry pinned his people’s crafts in spheres of contained pressure. Powerful current producers, lasers, and explosives shot and rippled in every direction from the vessels’ stocky underbellies. More ferocious than a battery of starving barracuda.

His eyes flickered as he absorbed the shifting deep around him. The air had left his lungs a rock, more jagged and leaden than the surrounding submerged mountains, formed inside his chest and thrust up into his throat. They had also ravaged humankind of all faith and, like expiring pockets of air, sucked out any belief they would ever again live in peace.Īri sat deadly still, copper-skinned knuckles frozen around the submersible’s controls. The great Old World floods had done more than exile humanity to the depths of the oceanic abyss. Hope had abandoned them to the wrath of all the waters. For information address Hyperion, 125 West End Avenue, New York, New York 10023. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Published by Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group. And her father will be lost to her forever.Īll rights reserved. If Leyla fails to discover the truths at the heart of her world, or falls prey to her own fears, she risks capture-or worse. Now she must brave unfathomable waters and defy a corrupt government determined to keep its secrets, all the while dealing with a guarded, hotheaded companion she never asked for in the first place. But the race takes an unexpected turn, forcing Leyla to make an impossible choice. The Prime Minister promises the champion whatever their heart desires. When sixteen-year-old submersible racer Leyla McQueen is chosen to participate in the city’s prestigious annual marathon, she sees an opportunity to save her father, who has been arrested on false charges. Trapped in the abyss, humankind wavers between hope and fear of what lurks in the depths around them, and hope that they might one day find a way back to the surface.

In the last days of the twenty-first century, sea creatures swim through the ruins of London.

The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah