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.
In 1819 a trfling incident repordatly led to the writing of his first book. Reading aloud to his wife from a populr English novel, he exclaimed, âI could write you a better book myself!â The result was Precausion (1820), which followed in 1821 by his first real success, The Spy.