The Rift - Walter Jon Williams
Category: Suspense
Narrator: Kevin Kenerly
Tags: Suspense, Thriller
Fast-paced and terrifyingly real, The Rift is a blockbuster novel of destruction, heroism, and survival that is sure to grab fans of recent disaster movies., It starts with the dogs. They wont stop barking. And then the earth shrugs - 8.9 on the Richter scale. Its the worlds biggest earthquake since Lisbon in 1755, and it doesnt hit California or Japan or Mexico, but New Madrid, Missouri, a sleepy town on the Mississippi River. Seismologists had predicted the scope of the disaster - but no one listened., For hundreds of miles around, dams burst, engulfing entire counties in tidal waves of mud and debris. Cities collapse into piles of brick and shards of glass. Hospitals and schools crumble. Bridges twist and snap, spilling rush-hour traffic into rivers already swollen with bodies. Within minutes, there is nothing but chaos and ruin from St. Louis to Vicksburg, from Kansas City to Louisville. Every bridge down, every highway torn, every house gone., Americas heartland has fallen into th
