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Book Review of The Rift

The Rift
The Rift
Author: Walter Jon Williams
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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It starts with the dogs--they won't stop barking. And then the earth shrugs--8.9 on the Richter scale in the world's biggest earthquake since 1755. Within minutes, there is nothing but chaos and run as America's heartland falls 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.