Sixty Days To Live: Dennis Wheatley

Lavinia Stapleton ran away from home to become the film star Lavinia Leigh. Three years later she met the attractive, middle-aged millionaire, Sir Samuel Curry. Should she marry him - or go on with her career? Her Uncle Oliver, the distinguished astronomer offered: 'It would be a pity for you to die without the experience of marriage, my dear. A comet is due to hit the earth on the 24th of June and none of us has more than sixty days to live.' Once the cat was out of the bag, things began to happen. A plot to overthrow the Government. Emergency measures to protect the people of the world from massive volcanic eruptions and another flood. Panic, riots, street fighting. London under martial law. The red rays of the approaching comet drove many people mad. Lavinia's father captained a new type of Ark, but not all of his family were able to escape from London to get to it. Soon there were three men in love with Lavinia - all striving desperately to protect her. First published in 1939, a real departure from Wheatley's usual story lines.