Nothing Last Forever: Setting

The main setting of Nothing Last Forever is the 40-story office headquarters of the Klaxon Oil Corporation in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. It is met to take place in the 1979 when the book was written and they describe LA as being pristine, clean, and a big place that is full of skum, and they talk about how the city is from the view of tourist in a first person view from the eyes of the main charecter Joe Leland who is there visiting his daughter at the Klazon Oil Corporation were she works at. Then the building is described as being a tall high rise building that is closterphobic because it is unfinished at the moment the book takes place so there are alot of construction cooridoors and equipment liying around that Joe and the Terrorist that take over the building have to navigate. Also in the building there are these vents that Joe Leland has to navigate that are given the feeling of being very dark cold and hard to move through due to their size. There is also the roof of the building that is described as being dark and dangerous as they are many obstacles on it and is the set peice for the first main action sequence between Leland and the Terrorist as they fight with very little cover on the roof so Leland does get a couple scratches and nicks but nothing seroiuos yet. Also you have the parking lot outside were the only cop on the outside that knows what is going on is sitting there under a street lamp in the dead od night on Christmas Eve. There is another thing about the setting and that is the time frame, all the events of the book take place on Christmas Eve and into really early Christmas morning as described in a prologue and even though it is December it is described as being very hot and humid due to the fact that it is Los Angeles and it is never that cold there. Also based just on the cover it looks like the the building is one fire so now Joe has to run through and fight terrorist in a burning building that is also an oil company so it adds a little more stress that parts of the building are on fire and that he also walks around in bare feet so that also adds the element because there is a bunch of broken glass around the building. So overall the setting I gathered from the cover of the book and the first 35 pages is that it will contribute alot to the story becasue Joe is all alone up there.