Description
'Earthquake country, ' said the Professor. 'San Francisco is geologically and seismologically a city that waits to die. Los Angeles is ringed by earthquake centres - seven massive quakes so far. We have no idea where the next, the monster, will hit...'
...until a criminal fanatic kidnaps a nuclear scientist and builds his own atomic bombs. If exploded on California's fault lines they could trigger off the mightiest earthquake of them all - killing half its population and dumping the entire city of San Francisco into the sea.
Goodbye California...
Author: Alistair MacLean
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 12/01/2020
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780008337476
ISBN10: 0008337470
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Espionage
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Traditional
About the Author
Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel, published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.