John Hobson, a geneticist, wakes one morning to find his watch stopped at 6.12. The streets are deserted, there are no signs of life or death anywhere, and every clock he finds has stopped: at 6.12. Is Hobson the last person left on the planet?Inventive and suspenseful, The Quiet Earth is a confronting journey into the future, and a dark past.This new edition of Craig Harrison’s highly sought-after 1981 novel, which was later made into a cult film starring Bruno Lawrence, Pete Smith and Alison Routledge, comes with an introduction by Bernard Beckett. ‘Cuts to the heart of our most basic fears… compelling… a classic.’Bernard Beckett ‘Excellent… The inevitability of the horror has a Hitchcock quality.’Listener