Rogue waves aren’t just for big-budget blockbusters like The Perfect Storm and Poseidon anymore. Author Susan Casey takes a two-tiered approach in her exhaustively researched novel “The Wave”: describing the lives of professional surfers who conquer the biggest waves and the work of scientists who study how the ocean works. It’s interesting to read about these seemingly conflicting groups – the surfers and the scientists – all drawn to the same work of Mother Nature: the ocean.