Quake 1st World Hardcover (UK)     True 1st World Hardcover PUBLISHER: Headline 1995     Publications 1987 DJ PRICE£ 16.99 ISBN 0-7472-1136-1

Quake Uncorrected Proof PUBLISHER: Headline 1995 DJ PRICE£ 16.99 Anticipated ISBN: 0-7472-1136-1

The Quake 1st US Hardcover PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press 1995 COVER PRICE: $22.95 ISBN 0-312-13150-X

The Quake Uncorrected Proof PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press 1995 COVER PRICE: $22.95 Anticipated 0-312-13150-X

Twenty minutes before the quake hits, Stanley is ogling a pretty female jogger through his living-room window. He ogles Sheila Banner every morning and that's not all he'd like to do to her. The quake might just give him his chance.

One minute before the quake hits, Clint Banner is in his downtown office ahead of the morning rush. So he's all alone as the walls buckle and the carpet makes waves like the ocean. Outside, the buildings are dancing, parked cars are rolling down the street and snapped power lines are crackling. Clint's only concern is for the safety of his wife and daughter. He has to get home - but how??

When the quake hits, Barbara Banner is in a car with a teacher and three other students. The teacher freaks out and drives off like a maniac so now she, too, is stranded on the wrong side of town.

Clint and Barbara must make their way home to Sheila, trapped naked in the bathtub in their ruined house. But will they get there before Stanley, the fat pervert for whom the earthquake is a heaven-sent opportunity?