Description:"A scientist reports to a stunned world: 'The whole earth may be shrivelling up like a punctured balloon.' The flight from cities at high alititudes -- whose nitrogen gas accidentally released from the earth's core is gathering to cause mass death -- to the coastlines creastes political chaos and violent anarchy. But worse is in store . . . The great oceans of the world are about to deliver destruction on a scale never before envisioned . . ."