Enjoyable but not exceptional doomsday story. In its favour, the tidal wave scenes are probably more realistic than most but, because of that, they are not as spectacular and exciting as they could have been. The story also falls into some of the classic cliches of this type of book but, to be fair, I can't say whether they were cliches back in 1964 when it was written. But the above points are concentrating on the critical. It's a quick, enjoyable read with a great premise - the kind of story SyFy could make a cheap but decent disaster movie from. ( )