Odds Against Tomorrow

"Nathaniel Rich focuses on a Midwestern mathematician named Mitchell Zukor, who develops a wild talent for seeing worst-case scenarios about climate and ecology. When a storm bigger than any Sandy we’ve ever known floods most of New York City, Zukor, with the help of a young woman from his office, comes into his own. The scenes of the flooding of Manhattan are as terrifically described as any of the best science-fiction we have. A knockout of a book by a young writer to keep your eye on."