Red Lightning (Red Thunder) Hardcover – April 4, 2006
by John Varley  (Author)
 
The son of one of the pioneering explorers of Mars, a disgruntled Ray Garcia-Strickland is bored with life on the Red Planet and tired of the overdevelopment and tourist Earthies, but when Earth is struck by a mysterious object, causing a massive tsunami, he is forced to return to Earth to help solve one of its greatest mysteries.
 
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