Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1167774 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 292 pages

Synopsis
It is the year 2016. The survivors of a catastrophic world war are struggling to re-build their lives but it becomes apparent that fate hasn't finished with them. A new enemy is standing at the gates - numerically superior and brutal beyond all imagination - with only one desire, to wipe mankind from the face of the planet.

Customer Reviews

Teetering on the edge.
This is Paul Hinton's first part of the trilogy, introducing us to the dilemma facing the remaining humans following a devastaing world war.

Having come through the war, the survivors group together to try to re-establish themselves. Unfortunately, their attempts are thwarted, not only by other marauding thugs but also by a far more potent enemy which, since the war, has become revitalised, more terrible and far more brutal than the afore-mentioned human thugs.

This then, is the story of how the survivors deal with these different menaces and since this is a trilogy it would spoil it to reveal where the survivors find themselves at the end - and, indeed, how they got there!

The book rattles along. There's very little not happening on every page and the author creates a vision of a very damaged England after the war and the interesting techniques the leader of the survivors, with his miltary background, uses to keep his few remaining friends alive and kicking.

If you like an action thriller with a touch of the horror of the unknown thrown in for good measure, this book will fill the spot. I hope book 2 is not far away.

Badly written
Although the story line is OK and it is quite pacey, this book is let down by its poor dialogue, poor characterisation and just plain bad writing. It reads in parts like an Enid Blyton Famous Five book.