THE DISASTER ENGINEERS

ADAPT. CALCULATE. SURVIVE.

The mission continues. In the second installment of the Disaster Engineers series, the threat isn't just coming-it's already at the door.

Twelve-year-old engineering prodigies Leo and Maya find themselves standing on a bone-dry mountain ridge with a shifting wind and a massive wildfire moving uphill at four miles per hour. While most people would see a wall of flames, Leo and Maya see a series of complex thermodynamic equations.

With the clock ticking and the air thick with ash, they must take Extreme Ownership of their survival. Armed only with an engineering notebook, a roll of aluminum flashing, and the immutable laws of physics, the duo must transform a wooden cabin into a fortified "Heat Shadow."

• The Physics of Siphons: How to move water uphill using gravity and the Bernoulli Principle.

• Thermal Engineering: How to use emissivity to bounce radiant heat away from a structure.

• Fluid Dynamics: The secret to building "Ember Baffles" that stop firebrands in their tracks.

• Subsurface Forensics: How to hunt invisible root fires before they destroy a foundation.

From building high-pressure gravity cannons to outsmarting the "waxy" chemistry of burned soil, the Disaster Engineers prove once again that in a crisis, your greatest asset isn't your gear-it's your brain.

Stop guessing. Start calculating.