Synopsis: Lavina Stapleton ran away from home to become the film star, Lavina Leigh. Three years later she met the attractive, middle-aged millionaire, Sir Samuel Curry, and was faced with the problem: should she marry him or go on with her career? Her Uncle Oliver, the distinguished astronomer, said: '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 have 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 terrific volcanic eruptions and another flood. Panic, riots, street fighting. London under martial law. The red rays of the approaching comet drove many people mad. Lavina's father captained a new kind of Ark, but not all his family were able to escape from London to it. Soon there were three men in love with Lavina, each striving to protect her in those desperate days. Fire, flood and tempest: the world gone mad. Scene after scene of breath-taking excitement, written with all that vigour and suspense which made Dennis Wheatley's books so eagerly sought after all over the world. [front cover inside, Arrow 1960]