The Swarm: A Novel of the Deep

by Frank Schätzing

Delaware screamed. The pilot was screaming. Anawak screamed.

Suddenly Stone looked crushed.

People are losing their significance. Everyone's replaceable.

Stopping a nuclear orca is virtually impossible.

‘But this isn't about America! It's about the world.' ‘America is the world.'

‘You could ask whether humanity deserves to stay alive. But there is no humanity, only people. Individuals.

Put more bluntly: mankind was no masterpiece. God had messed up.

God must have arrived at the conclusion that humanity was a mistake.