« Goodbye California » Alistair MacLean

The classic tale of terrorism, where a criminal fanatic is hell–bent on blasting San Francisco into the ocean, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. 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…