The Hammer of Eden Ken Follett
The thing Priest fears the most is the destruction of the commune he founded thirty years ago in the Sierra Nevada foothills - the one place where he can hide from his mobster past.
He has to make the Governor of California listen to him. And now he has a way. He knows how to create an earthquake. And if his demands aren't met, the next quake is just 48 hours away . . .