The Hammer of Eden

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The Hammer of Eden is a work by Ken Follett. It is about a group of people living together in a commune cut away from the rest of the world. When their commune is threatened by a plan to build a dam, they turn desperate and devise a devious plan to arm twist the governor of California to abandon the project. They transform themselves into eco-terrorists and threaten to start an earthquake if their demands are not met. Their leader is an illiterate man called Priest who is helped by a seismology student called Mellisa in his plans. An FBI agent Judy Maddox is the only one who can stop them and the rest of the story revolves around how she tries to do so.