The Post
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
A police chief ventures outside one of the last pockets of civilization to confront a monstrous evil in this postapocalyptic crime thriller.
Ten years after the world's oil went sour and a pandemic killed most of the population, Sam Edison is the chief of police of The Little Five, a walled-in community near Atlanta, Georgia. Now the few who survive share the world with the hollow-heads: formerly human cannibals who hunt anything living for food.
When a pregnant teenager is murdered shortly after arriving at The Little Five, Chief Edison discovers that she was fleeing a life of sexual slavery. Her personal nightmare is over. But when the mayor's stepdaughter is abducted, the trail leads Chief Edison to the horrifying realization that the entire city of Athens is engaged in human trafficking. Now will have to save the young girl and somehow make it back home, evading monsters both human and non-human all the way.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This violent, ambitious, and often preachy postapocalyptic debut features Police Chief Sam Edison of Little Five, a walled community near Atlanta that's struggling to survive 10 years after the world's petroleum has gone sour. Once-human "hollow-heads," virtually unkillable cannibals, hunt anything living for food. Sam Edison, haunted by the earlier deaths of wife and daughter, attempts to solve the murders of two strangers, a man and a traumatized pregnant teen, who recently arrived at Little Five. Sam is compulsively drawn to save the innocent and also undertakes a protracted search for the mayor's abducted stepdaughter; this investigation exposes a wide-ranging human trafficking ring involving various human enclaves. Rife with stomach-wrenching sorties against invading hollow-heads, this novel bitterly explores how a remnant of humanity can abandon its conscience for dark rewards. In ambivalent, constantly self-recriminating, and guilt-ridden Sam, it also traces a stubborn human refusal to abandon one's post, and the insistence on atoning for losses that can never be regained. Prosaic supporting characters do little to expand this grim tale.
