It's one minute after the Big One. Marty Slack, a TV network executive, crawls out from under his Mercedes. Downtown LA is in ruins. The sky is thick with black smoke. His cell phone is dead. The freeways are rubble. The airport is demolished. Buildings lay across streets like fallen trees. It will be days before help can arrive. Marty has been expecting this day all his life. He's prepared. He knows there is only one thing he can do . . . that he must do: get home to his wife Beth, go back to their gated community on the far edge of the San Fernando Valley. All he has to do is walk. But he will quickly learn that it's not that easy. Looters rampage through the streets. His dangerous, unpredictable journey home will take him through the different worlds of what was once Los Angeles. There's no power. No running water. No order. Marty Slack thinks he's prepared. He's wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test the limits of his endurance and his humanity, a trek from the man he was to the man he can be . . . if he can survive The Walk. Lee Goldberg lives in Tarzana, California.
The Walk
Year
2004
Pages
235
Description
It's one minute after the Big One. Marty Slack, a TV network executive, crawls out from under his Mercedes. Downtown LA is in ruins. The sky is thick with black smoke. His cell phone is dead. The freeways are rubble. The airport is demolished. Buildings lay across streets like fallen trees. It will be days before help can arrive. Marty has been expecting this day all his life. He's prepared. He knows there is only one thing he can do . . . that he must do: get home to his wife Beth, go back to their gated community on the far edge of the San Fernando Valley. All he has to do is walk. But he will quickly learn that it's not that easy. Looters rampage through the streets. His dangerous, unpredictable journey home will take him through the different worlds of what was once Los Angeles. There's no power. No running water. No order. Marty Slack thinks he's prepared. He's wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test the limits of his endurance and his humanity, a trek from the man he was to the man he can be . . . if he can survive The Walk. Lee Goldberg lives in Tarzana, California.
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