Those Who Favor Fire

by Marta Randall

In a world of Fury, Madness, Death -- They chose Desire, Love, Each Other

After the earthquake, the only law was the barrel of a gun. Rumors of nuclear sabotage sent more shock waves throughthe people as they swarmed to escape on the blasted, ruined highways.

Society explodes in an all-out war for food, shelter, safety ... but a flame of human hope consumes a city girl and a mountain man, a gentle doctor and her renegade lover. Together, fighting for each other, they battle for survival - and for civilization.

Their ordeal will sear their souls.
Their courage and trust may save their lives.

276 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 1984

Reviews

[Kevin Phyland · Rating 3 out of 5]

In a near future San Francisco three disparate groups are quietly preparing for the anarchy that they anticipate after a global catastrophe - nuclear war, unpoliced violence in the cities, plagues or natural disasters - whatever the cause they are preparing. One group are full-bore survivalists with a large arsenal, all-terrain vehicles and provisions, who are prepared for violence and quite willing to do it. A second group is the cultlike Kinfolk - ostensibly drying out drug addicts and alcoholics but in reality brainwashing patients into an Armageddon army. Into this mix comes Doctor Elizabeth Gracey, whose partner has a very shady past (smuggling mainly), and who reluctantly embraces the self-preparedness groups after witnessing the horrific daily violence in the city’s Emergency wards. Disaffected by the first group’s violence she enlists the aid of a few other doctors and useful people to form a third survivor grouop who buy a ranch in the hills and wait for a trigger. When it comes, in the form of a huge earthquake and a possible nuclear sabotage, the three groups find themselves on a collison course of disaster where humanity is tested to its limits. Not really genre at all this entertaining novel by Marta Randall will not waste your time.