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A chilling outbreak strikes London, claiming every adult over sixteen in a brutal, relentless pandemic. The city’s elder populace becomes ruthless, bloodthirsty predators, hunting the younger generation.
DogNut leads a small band of survivors, all children who survived a devastating fire that claimed many of their friends. They embark on a perilous journey from the Tower of London toward Buckingham Palace, hoping to locate the vanished companions and uncover who truly haunts their new reality.
The novel follows their struggle to navigate a city now populated by hunger‑driven scavengers, and to differentiate the friends they once knew from the enemies that have emerged from the shadows of a changed world.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Charles Higson
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