Goodbye California (novel)
- Goodbye California (novel)
Infobox Book
name = Goodbye California
title_orig =
translator =
image_caption = Cover of 1977 USA paperback edition
author = Alistair MacLean
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series =
genre = Thriller novel
publisher = Collins; paperback by Fawcett Crest
release_date = 1978
media_type = Print
pages = 315
isbn = 0-449-23834-2
preceded_by = Seawitch
followed_by = Athabasca
"Goodbye California" is a novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1977.
Plot introduction
Set in the United States, an Islamic terrorist kidnaps nuclear scientists and steals radioactive material from a California nuclear power plant. The plot focusses on the plan of the kidnappers to build their own atomic bombs which if exploded along California's earthquake fault lines could kill millions of people and destroy California's major cities.
The inspiration for the plot appears to be acknowledged by Maclean himself in his preface to the 1977 edition of the book where he describes his first experience of an earthquake while in California on 9 February 1972.
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