Richard Lewis is the author of The Flame Tree, Simon and Schuster, 2004 the YA novel The Killing Sea: A Novel of the Tsunami, Simon and Schuster, 2007 and a soon to be released YA novel The Demon Queen,Simon and Schuster, 2008. Lewis says, "Now I'm writing full time, and, to the horror of my old surfing buddies, take more pleasure in turning an original phrase than in getting tubed." Until three years ago, most of Lewis' free time was spent searching the archipelago for surf, only writing now and again. Later he worked as a manager for several export companies in Bali. Instead he completed an English Teaching degree that allowed him to get a job in a refugee camp in Indonesia. Lewis attended college in Illinois and was headed for a PhD in Marine biology when he decided it was not the right career path for him. His parents returned to Indonesia as American missionaries. His mother, who was born in Tibet, came to the U.S when she was eleven. His father was born in Brooklyn New York. Richard Lewis was born in Indonesia and went to boarding school in Java and Malaysia.
Aceh, in northern Indonesia, was the first landmass to be hit, approximately twenty minutes after the quake it was estimated that the tallest of the waves that struck was a hundred feet high. With all that volume of displaced water racing in to increasingly shallow water, some of the waves grew to enormous size. When the wave train reached coastal areas, it slowed down. This created a powerful series of waves that in the deep ocean traveled as fast as a jet plane, barely disturbing the surface with their two-foot ripples. An area of seafloor the size of California sprang up as much as twenty-five feet, shoving upward several dozen cubic miles of ocean. a local time, deep in the sunless depths one hundred miles off the west coast of Sumatra, an ocean bed fault ruptured for hundreds of miles. Decemdawned bright over the calm Indian Ocean.
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