Book Description Your name is Harry Vail and you alone know the terrifying truth—or do you…? You are an expert on earthquakes and you fear their awesome power to the point of insanity. Now you are sure that an earthquake is building below your very feet. Your house， your family， your friends， your town， are about to be destroyed. The cracks appearing in the walls…the "accidental" deaths of local people…the strange movements of inanimate objects—all increase the certainty of your belief and the urgency of your warnings to those around you. The trouble is， there are others who have another， even more frightening explanation for what is happening—and God help you all if they are right… "A piercing shriek of fear and panic from page one to the shaking end!" —Cleveland Press Eerie suspense…Arthur Herzog's The Swarm was mighty scary， but Earthsound is even more so!" —Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Paperback edition. About the Author Arthur Herzog is an award-winning novelist， non-fiction writer and journalist， renowned for his best-selling novels The Swarm， Orca (both made into popular movies)， Make Us Happy， Heat and IQ 83， hailed by the British press as one of the best science fiction works ever written. His non-fiction best sellers include Vesco， which Publishers Weekly hailed as "A brilliantly researched story…one of the year’s remarkable biographies" and The Woodchipper Murder. A New Yorker， avid reader， and world traveler， Herzog continues to write fiction and non-fiction books. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.