Psychlone - Greg Bear

It starts with a series of unconnected atrocities:

A family, throats cut, obscenities scrawled on the sides of their yacht in blood . .

The corpse of a man frozen to death, his body shattered into tiny fragments like pieces of gory glass . . .

A landscape scorched and blackened, as if by an angry god . .

An entire village, wiped out in moments by some violent, elemental force . . .

And gradually people start to see the connections: a man-made maelstrom is loose in the world, and it's getting bigger, and it's coming closer . . .

Greg Bear is one of the world's leading hard SF authors. A multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner, he sold his first short story, at the age of fifteen, to Robert Lowndes's Famous Science Fiction. His novels Blood Music and Eon are both Gollancz Masterworks. A full-time writer, he lives in Washington with his family.