Camille A Novel

Three years ago, hurricane hunter Air Force Reserve pilot Drew Stone sounded a false alarm on Hurricane Betsy, so in August of 1969, few believed him when he radioed in from the eye of Hurricane Camille that she was the storm of the century—a category five monster packing two-hundred-plus-mile-per-hour winds, surrounded by dozens of ravaging tornadoes, and driving two thirty-five-foot-tall tidal waves before her, directly toward an unsuspecting Mississippi coast. Gambling on misleading media reports that Camille was headed toward New Orleans or Galveston, owners of beachfront antebellum mansions, revelers at an ill-fated Pass Christian hurricane party, and hundreds of other coast residents make a fatal decision to ride out the storm. After limping back to his Biloxi base in a battered reconnaissance plane, Stone warns friends and neighbors of the pending disaster while en route to his home in Bay St. Louis to join his wife and young son, stranded at ground zero, directly in the path of the eye of Camille—the worst hurricane to strike the North American mainland in recorded history.Fraiser, Jim is the author of 'Camille A Novel', published 2005 under ISBN 9781413778496 and ISBN 1413778496.