Summary:

The long-slumbering Chilean volcano Chaiten awakens. Sheila Kennedy, a scientist engaged in microbiology research on the mountain, has gone on a hunt for a convoy of tanker trucks she suspects are involved in illegal dumping, while her partner Ross Roundtree (who survived the Antarctic disaster in Dionne’s previous novel Melting Point) pokes around town for clues. Thus Sheila is on the caldera when it erupts. She is not alone. Dr. Max Heat, celebrity vulcanologist; Phillipe Du...