The only problem is the lack of fuel, which makes getting around in cars difficult. Life near Melbourne is relatively normal, despite the global catastrophe. Most reports state that the radiation will reach the southernmost reaches of the globe in about six months – the only living people left on Earth are those living in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and some parts of South America. Peter has been instructed to accompany Dwight on his final mission as a submarine commander, and he agrees to go, despite his concerns about leaving his wife, Mary, and infant daughter, Jennifer, to face the impending nuclear fall-out alone. Peter Holmes is a lieutenant commander in the Australian Navy, and Dwight Tower is the commander of a United States nuclear submarine stationed off the coast of Australia. Each of the characters deals with the reality of their coming death in a different way, and the novel follows each character until his or her death. The characters in the novel await their eventual death, as a cloud of radiation moves south toward Melbourne. On the Beach (1957) a dystopian novel by British novelist Nevil Shute, follows a group of people living in Melbourne, Australia about a year after a catastrophic nuclear war that has devastated the Northern Hemisphere, killing everyone north of the Equator.
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