
The Rift
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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 won’t stop barking. And then the earth shrugs - 8.9 on the Richter scale. It’s the world’s biggest earthquake since Lisbon in 1755, and it doesn’t 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.
America’s heartland has fallen into the nightmare known as the Rift, a fault line in the earth that wrenchingly exposes the fractures in American society itself. As a strange white mist smelling of sulfur rises from the crevassed ground, the real terror begins for the survivors, who will soon envy the dead, including:
- Jason Adams, a teenager separated from his mother;
- Nick Ruford, an African-American engineer searching for his estranged daughter;
- Noble Frankland, the television preacher whose visions of hell have become all too real;
- Larry Hallock, a technician working frantically to prevent a nuclear meltdown at his power station;
- And Omar Paxton, a sheriff and Ku Klux Klansman who seeks racial vengeance in the turmoil of disaster.
Walter J. Williams has created a modern American disaster saga, a story based on terrifying fact, filled with non-stop action, peopled with characters who are heartbreakingly real. Witnessing authentic heroes surfacing in the unlikeliest places, you will share their horror, feel their despair, and triumph with them in their struggle to survive. One thing you will know for sure: It can happen here. And sooner or later, it will.
©2013 Walter Jon Williams (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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I started it right before the recent earthquake hit in California.
Excellent character development and a story that continues to draw you in and root for the good guys!
Unexpected great book
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It kept my attention through out the length of the story and had me engaged with most of the characters, never felt as if it was dragging on.
Just WOW!
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Loved it
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Couldn't Get Past The Reader - Terrible!
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now that I figured that out, this book is great! definitely recommended!
Great book, here's how to fix the volume issues...
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Mr. Williams writing in the Rift, explaining STUFF, is not so enjoyable. But the book is worth listening too on Audio... I dont know if I would have read it... but listen too, yes. Some of the characters were, not needed... ( opinion ) financial wizard...was a waste of words, and based on this books as stupid as a box of rocks. But the book was not boring, and unfortunately, the events could happen even without a major earthquake. I would like to think ( opinion ) that Michener would have written about the rest of the worlds and countries response, after such a major even. Willliams did not do justice to covering this , however the individual story lines and how they come together makes this an enjoyable book in my opinion
Enjoy
Many good and not so good parts, but interesting
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Great book.......rivetting
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Scarily Prescient.Should be required reading!
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Boring at first
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