New York: Norton, (1986). Hardcover first edition - A disaster novel by the author of The Tower" (filmed as "The Towering Inferno") centering on the Blackslope fire, a "catastrophic forest fire in New Mexico's Samrio National Forest, where a prolonged drought, the homes that fringe the forest, campers, and two escaped convicts are the ingredients for disaster." 342 pp. ISBN: 0-393022587.