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Sam Rimmington wakes to a day when strange, massive vessels gather over London and silence the city’s usual din. As people walk silently toward the ships, emitting a continuous hum, Sam’s skull tingles with a different, inescapable signal he can hear. For six months he remains unaware of the strange alien presence. Yet at the end, he discovers that everyone else has vanished, leaving him alone to face the implications of the extraterrestrial beings that have taken London.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Mark Walden
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