Cat Five — Robert P. Davis

No force of land, sea, or sky ever equalled Claudine! Yet the Palm Beach jet-setters and spoiled rich, the con men and the careless lovers, make jokes about the raging fury headed straight for them. Then Claudine hits. Water rises at an astounding rate. Tiger sharks slip through now-panicked crowds, buildings explode and are ripped away. And as Claudine's victims frantically struggle along roads that go nowhere - or into luxury towers rising out of the sand - they cling to lives that take on a new meaning as their world tumbles down around them.