Saturday, January 14, 2012

PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Interesting Books to Your Attention

This is free for now. Great book. Go for it!

Amazon.com: The Walk eBook: Lee Goldberg: Kindle Store: It's one minute after the Big One. Marty Slack, a TV network executive, crawls out from under his Mercedes, parked outside what once was a downtown Los Angeles warehouse, the location for a new TV show. Downtown LA is in ruins. The sky is thick with black smoke. His cell phone is dead. The freeways are rubble. The airport is demolished. Buildings lay across streets like fallen trees. It will be days before help can arrive.

Marty has been expecting this day all his life. He's prepared. In his car are a pair of sturdy walking shoes and a backpack of food, water, and supplies. He knows there is only one thing he can do ... that he must do: get home to his wife Beth, go back to their gated community on the far edge of the San Fernando Valley.

All he has to do is walk. But he will quickly learn that it's not that easy. His dangerous, unpredictable journey home will take him through the different worlds of what was once Los Angeles. Wildfires rage out of control. Flood waters burst through collapsed dams. Natural gas explosions consume neighborhoods. Sinkholes swallow entire buildings. After-shocks rip apart the ground. Looters rampage through the streets.

There's no power. No running water. No order.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

WHen is the movie version coming out?

Jeff

Unknown said...

It would be a great movie.

Deb said...

Oh, I must read this! I lived in southern California for 20 years and this was always a big fear--not just making it through a huge earthquake, but then making it home (if you still had a home) afterwards. I lived through several pretty significant quakes, but never the BIG ONE (which geologists believe is waaaay overdue).

/Now I live in Louisiana. At least you get a couple of days warning for hurricanes.