The Pacific plate moves northwestward relative to the North American plate, which causes earthquakes along the fault.ities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco are located along the San Andreas fault line. This marks the plate marg â¦ in between the Pacific plate and the North American Plate.
In the early 20th century, novels by Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Erskine Childers featured spying, but the first and best truly modern spy writing was Somerset Maughamâs Ashenden (1928), based on his wartime experiences.
Eric Amblerâs 1938 novel Epitaph for a Spy is a perfect example of his distinctive approach to spy fiction. Amblerâs heroes were not professional spies but ordinary people caught up in the dangerous web of espionage. They do not thereby metamorphose into brave and noble heroes.