The Tower

This is the incredible suspense novel that inspired the famous movie The Towering Inferno staring Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and William Holden. The World Communications Center is a glittering skyscraper that is fatally flawed in its design, compromised through dubious means. On opening night the building’s systems fail spectacularly and the structure descends into violence and chaos, trapping the VIP guests of a gala opening celebration. It is up to the assembled governors and mayors, millionaires, government officials and ambassadors to find common cause if they are ever to survive the tower. Master storyteller Richard Martin Stern has crafted a six-hour thrill ride that leaves adrenal glands empty and jaws unhinged—The Tower is a suspense classic that is not easily forgotten.

Dominating the skyline of Manhattan is the new World Communications Center, the greatest building ever constructed. On the day of its dedication, as a glittering cast of VIPs gathers at the very top of the building, the junior architect, Nat Wilson, makes a horrifying discovery: the building’s structure is fatally flawed. And then in the core of the building, a chain of accidents and a sudden insane burst of violence start an avalanche of events that threatens the center and everyone trapped in it.

The complexity and fascination of Airport and the fatal momentum of A Night to Remember are brought to mind as Richard Martin Stern draws the reader into the heart of the crisis—and into the lives of the men and women who are transformed by it. Governors and mayors, senators and high government officials, ambassadors and millionaires are all reduced to the essentials of their humanity. Some are surprised to find themselves acting the heroic part. Others find their own weakness exposed by the gathering rush toward disaster. The building itself becomes almost a living character as it plunges into its agony.

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