Emergency-management meteorologist & author

He sees the disaster movie other people miss.

Jerry Shields spent a career forecasting the moments before things go wrong. Now he writes about them — starting with Cleaver Reach, book one of the Nate Discher series.

Jerry Shields, author, standing outdoors at golden hour with the coast behind him

The Nate Discher series

Book one — coming late 2026
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Cleaver Reach

Book One · Nate Discher Series

He saw it coming and couldn't make the one person who mattered most listen. A thriller about the gap between warning and belief, and what it costs the people who don't hear it in time.

Full details & series roadmap

Step into Nate's world

Nate Discher has his own corner of the internet — a field-record style site built around his career, his cases, and the forecasts that shaped him.

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