Katastrofa (2026)

When a passenger plane carrying three hundred people crashes from a height of eleven kilometres into the grounds of a nuclear power plant after the pilot suffers a medical emergency, the remote Minnesota town of Waketa becomes the epicentre of a national crisis that could end in a catastrophe of global proportions. The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale has seven levels. In the past, only two events corresponding to level 7, an extremely serious accident, have been recorded: Fukushima and Chernobyl. Level 8 has never occurred. So far. In this nerve-shredding thriller, ordinary people, including power-plant workers, firefighters, teachers and their relatives, neighbours and friends, face a situation in which not only Waketa’s fate but the future of the entire planet is at stake. Will a handful of courageous people find enough bravery, ingenuity and determination to withstand this severe test of survival? The author of Ultimatum and Crash returns with her third novel, using the aviation setting she loves only as a springboard for a much more suspenseful story in which the real danger begins only after the crash. This Czech-language hardback is a thriller.