The Fall of Eden
-
- $4.99
-
- $4.99
Publisher Description
Lord of the Flies comes to Club Med in the year?s most exciting and original thriller.
Charles Spencer is a fifty-five year old college professor, going on vacation with his wife and their two almost-grown children to the sunny Caribbean isle of St. Bart?s.
But when they land, Charles and his family find only chaos. Rumors circulate of an attack on the United States. Communications are down. People are panicked beyond comprehension. It is in this madness that Charles uses his intellect and articulate nature to bring the locals and tourists together, and maintain a semblance of order and society in the face of disaster.
But humanity is not as civilized as Charles believes. Distrust, animosity, and prejudice splinter the survivors into factions who battle over supplies, technology, and control. And even as Charles confronts those who would doom them all, a greater threat is on the horizon. A threat that will force them all to fight not only for their lives?but for the future of their world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Michaels's debut, a predictable postapocalyptic thriller, Charles Spencer, his wife and their two children as well as his brother, Dan, have come to the Caribbean island of St. Barth lemy to bring his dying 81-year-old father back to the U.S. When nuclear missiles devastate the United States and Europe, the Spencer family finds they have limited contact with the outside world. Who was behind the attacks remains obscure as the militaristic Dan wastes little time seizing a cache of guns and recruiting allies both to defend the hotel where the Spencers are staying and to make sorties in search of provisions. The inevitable bloodshed between competing groups of survivors and discussions of what sacrifices are necessary to insure viability follow. Readers would do better to go back to such classics of this genre as Nevil Shute's On the Beach and John Christopher's No Blade of Grass.
