London, Hodder and Stoughton ,1965
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1965 (as The Ragged Edge)
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Book Details:Paperback edition published by Sphere Books Ltd, London, 1985 reprint. Sleeve notes:There was a hush at the first shock, a silences that rang in the ears. The noise reached him with the second one, a bellowing that sounded as though the world was being torn from its orbit and sent grinding and slithering through space. From that point, the shocks were successive - lurch and roar, in a hideous phased rhythm . . . After the earth convulsed, humanity began it's slow, inexorable return to barbarism. Amid the eerie, diseased ruins of the cities, across the ravaged countryside, men and women found only pillage, rape, death and nameless cruelty - as they searched for some remnant of the life that had once been. Book Source:Terry Jenkins |
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Book Details:Hardback edition published by Hodder and Stoughton, London,1965. First edition. Sleeve notes:The author of THE POSSESSORS and DEATH OF GRASS writes here of a Guernsey tomato grower who survives a series of earthquakes which destroy towns and drain the seas. With one small boy for company he seta about the absurd business of survival; encountering pitiful bands of men and women who have escaped the catastrophe, boarding a stranded super tanker, avoiding groups who prey on other as the laws of the jungle subtly begin to shadow the temperate landscape of southern England. Here one of today’s master story tellers describes with a new imaginative depth the actions and reactions of men and women suddenly shocked into a new and primitive struggle for life. Book Source:Solihull Libraries |
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Book Details:Paperback edition published by Sphere Books Ltd, London, 1978. Sleeve notes:There was a hush at the first shock, a silences that rang in the ears. The noise reached him with the second one, a bellowing that sounded as though the world was being torn from its orbit and sent grinding and slithering through space. From that point, the shocks were successive - lurch and roar, in a hideous phased rhythm . . . After the earth convulsed, humanity began it's slow, inexorable return to barbarism. Amid the eerie, diseased ruins of the cities, across the ravaged countryside, men and women found only pillage, rape, death and nameless cruelty - as they searched for some remnant of the life that had once been. Book Source:Terry Jenkins |
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Book Details:Paperback edition published by Signet Books, Toronto, 1967. Sleeve notes:John Christopher the man who "discovered a new approach to the outworn art of inducing terror" (The Saturday Review) has created a chilling thriller with The Ragged Edge, the story of a natural catastrophe that wipes out 10,000 years of human history overnight . . . and what happens to a man who searches this shattered world for his lost daughter. Book Source:Terry Jenkins |
