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In an America of the near-future, one billionaire and his family seek sanctuary in their luxury underground bunker while the world burns. A darkly gripping, unputdownable high-concept thriller in the vein of Michael Crichton and Robert Harris.

Everyone knew the tipping-point was coming; with half the country under water and the other half a dust-bowl, it was only a matter of time before civil unrest would morph into something darker, something unstoppable. Billionaire John Brandt had seen this coming, had channelled his money, power and influence into being ready for the great unravelling.

Now Brandt and his family must retreat to Sanctuary, their underground bunker – a vast luxury mansion beneath the parched earth of the Nebraskan Great Plains. But they are not alone. A family such as theirs has staff, not to mention a private army to keep the rest of the world at bay. But once down there, deep underground, whose kingdom is it; Brandt, master of global markets – or the guys with the guns, who have been dumped on for most of their lives by men just like Brandt? And what of those outside the bunker, desperate to find a way in?

As tensions mount both inside and out, battle lines are drawn – between the haves and have-nots, between decency and expediency, between life and death. Sanctuary is a gripping, thought-provoking, utterly unputdownable novel that serves both as a wildly compelling thriller and an excoriating examination of the dream that is America.