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Aug 02, 2010johnwilla rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A very convincing account of the last few days before the eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD, and a young engineer who tries to solve the mystery of why water is being diverted from the city in the hottest part of the summer. The ending is particularly delicious, as chaos reigns and the young man and the upper-class woman he has fallen for survive the cataclysm.