The Hammer of Eden

By Ken Follett

Subjects: Prevention, Women Detectives, Fiction, espionage, Intelligence officers, Adventure stories, Induced seismicity, English fiction, United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Large type books, Maddox, judy (fictitious character), fiction, Earthquakes, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, technological, California, fiction, United States, Terrorists, fiction, Fiction, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, English literature, Terrorism, California, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Terrorists, Government Investigators, Translations into French, Adventure and adventurers, Detective and mystery stories

Description: Judy's boss has a grudge against her, so he gives her a dumb assignment: to investigate an anonymous threat from a group that claims that it can trigger earthquakes. Judy's research leads her to maverick seismologist Michael Quercus, who tells her it is possible for an earthquake to be caused deliberately. And when a tremor in a remote desert area shows signs of being machine-generated, Judy knows he was right. But who is responsible for the earthquake? Judy must find out before another tremor strikes. Helped by the erratic but attractive Michael, she races to pinpoint the terrorists' next target before they trigger the ultimate disaster.