

In alternating chapters, Sarah and Adam describe their experiences, first in the woods and then with their tormentors. When a paramilitary group kidnaps Mia, Adam has no choice but to put himself in their hands. Adam sees the potential death date of everyone he looks at, a curse that makes him valuable to dangerous people.


But Adam is different from everyone else in this ravaged England, because he's the wild-eyed prophet who predicted the Chaos. Like so many other former Londoners, this young family lives in the woods, surviving by hunting after the devastating earthquake that destroyed their society. A trilogy that began in the recognizable present concludes in a post-apocalyptic dystopic England, 17 years from now.Īdam-the child conceived in tragedy in Numbers (2010)-is a father now himself, caretaker to his girlfriend Sarah's daughter Mia.
