A Maxim Jakubowski selected title.
In RED MOON, Percy reinvented the werewolf and made the monster both terrifying and sympathetic in a twisted sort fo way. In THE DEAD LANDS, he breathes vigorous new life into the post-apocalyptic landscape. A virus has decimated humanity and a small group of survivors live oppressed behind the walls of Sanctuary, a last city. But what lies beyond? Has some form of civilisation survived and in what form? Is there hope or more despair? A motley group escape the tyranny and travel across the devastated landscape. A bleak trek that unveils following a peculiar young girl with strange powers, whose own motives are far from straightforward. The journey is perilous and many perish only to come face to face with the most unexpected foes and allies. Fascinating characters you quickly identify with, insidious dread, surprises when you least expect them: Percy orchestrates this often lyrical ballad of devastation with skill and a welter of colourful details. A book that will stick in your mind long after the story ends. ~ Maxim Jakubowski
| Primary Genre | Science Fiction |
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Like Stephen King's The Stand before it, THE DEAD LANDS is an incredible novel set across the sprawling landscape of a nightmarish post-apocalyptic American West. The world we know is gone, destroyed by a virus that wiped out nearly every human on the planet. Some few survivors built walled cities, fortresses to keep themselves safe from those the virus didn't kill...but did change. Sanctuary. A citadel in the heart of the former United States of America. Hundreds of miles in every direction beyond its walls lies nothing but death and devastation. Everyone who lives in the safety Sanctuary provides knows that. Until the day a stranger appears. She speaks of a green and fertile land far to the west, a land of promise and plenty, safe from the ruin the virus has wreaked. She has come to lead the survivors away from Sanctuary, to the promise of a new life without walls. But those who follow her will discover that not everything she says is true.
The Dead Lands features in the following genres: Science Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
The Dead Lands is available in Paperback
The Dead Lands was written by Benjamin Percy and published by Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division
The Dead Lands has 401 pages
£8.99
