Breathless

<p><strong><em>From the author of the best-selling and award-winning travel memoir Falling Uphill comes a prophetic dystopian novel.</em></strong></p><p></p><h1>What if global warming isn't the problem but a symptom of something much worse?</h1><p></p><p>Orphaned as a boy by a natural disaster that suffocated his village in Cameroon Mykelti has dedicated his life to ensuring it never happens again. Now a renowned paleoclimatologist he discovers the greatest mass extinctions in Earth's history were caused by cataclysmic oxygen depletion. And it has begun again this time due to humanity's rampant industrialization. </p><p></p><p>Modern society is unwilling to heed Mykelti's warnings. But it makes little difference. The Earth has already crossed an invisible tipping point. It is only a matter of time before the warming seas and thawing methane reserves push the atmosphere beyond recovery. </p><p></p><p>As infrastructure collapses Mykelti and a fractured group of survivors must keep their oxygen generators running long enough to face a final haunting question: Is humanity a species worth saving?</p><p></p><h4><em>A plausible near-future thriller Breathless is a modern successor to post-apocalyptic classics like On the Beach Earth Abides and Alas Babylon.</em></h4>