Ruined City
by Nevil Shute
Due to a series of accidents, the city's newly divorced financier, Henry Warren, finds himself in a hospital in the northern town, which has been destroyed by the closure of his shipyard. Struck by the fate of the town's residents, Warren risks her fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and return the city to its former prosperity. In an effort to change the fate of the town, he radically changes his own destiny.
