Dante’s Peak was written in 1997 as a novel based on the
film of the same name. Dante’s Peak is a small town in
the north-west of the United States, situated on the side
of a volcano that has been inactive for thousands of years.
When the mountain starts showing signs of activity, Harry
Dalton, an expert on volcanoes, is sent to investigate the
movement. Harry finds a volcano which he believes is
going to erupt in a very short time, but finds that no-one
in the town is willing to listen to him. Even his own boss
feels that he is exaggerating the danger, and that Harry is
over-reacting because his girlfriend was killed in a volcanic
eruption some months previously. Then the volcano starts
to erupt, and everyone realises that Harry was right.
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