The Enemy
The bestselling zombie horror series
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
The first book in the bestselling zombie horror series from the author of Young Bond.
‘Lord of the Flies with zombies . . . tons of nail-biting action!’ Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series
Every time he thought they’d gone, he heard them again. Searching for him.
The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now these zombies roam the streets, crazed and hungry.
In a destroyed London, the young hide in gangs, scavenging to survive, but with little hope for the future. Until rumours of a safe house travel across the city. But to get there they must face the Enemy – the mindless zombies who lie in wait.
Can these kids trust each other long enough to make it out alive?
Don’t miss the next book in this edge-of-your-seat series: The Dead.
‘The Enemy scores high with its brutal vision of a post-apocalyptic world’ Financial Times
‘Clever . . . fast paced . . . inventive’ Guardian
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Lord of the Flies meets 28 Days Later in this disturbing postapocalyptic adventure. Higson (the Young Bond series) presents a kids-only world with shades of Michael Grant's Gone books, though in this case, a disease has turned everyone over the age of 16 into mindless, flesh-eating nightmares, terrorizing and devouring those unaffected. Packs of resourceful kids have holed up in supermarkets, constructing defenses, foraging for supplies, and fighting off feral grown-ups. For the group sheltering in a Waitrose store, it's a ceaseless battle for survival, where even the simplest expedition can prove fatal. When the possibility of a haven arrives, the Waitrose kids band with new allies as they make a hazardous trek across London to the promised land: Buckingham Palace. Alternately bleak and defiant, this splatterfest doesn't pull any punches ( The skin blackened, shriveled and split, the overripe flesh inside squeezing out.... This was what happened if any grown-up lived long enough to let the disease run its full course ) nor is any character safe. It's up to a sequel to sort out some plot threads, but this is a solid start. Ages 12 up.
