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The dawn caresses the earth. The horror begins. On the shores of British Columbia beached whales die of starvation and disease, while an Indian shaman sings a chant of doom. In Seattle, an embittered scientist, confined to a wheelchair, pores through sheets of computer projections. Then a local TV reporter, whose wife works on the front lines of a governmental reasearch agency, gets the story of a lifetime.

Above the Arctic Circle a hole in the ozone layer has begun drifting southward, letting in a shower of sunshine and heat- sun that blinds, heat that kills and hatches murderous swarms of insects. While a handful of courageous men and women try to spread the warning, a government cover-up extends all the way to murder. Soon the Pacific Northwest will be overcome by an environmental tragedy such as the world has never seen.....