The Time Of The Reaper: Number 1 in series
By (Author) Andrew Butcher
Little, Brown Book Group
ATOM
1st May 2007
United Kingdom
Young Adult
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
400
Width 135mm, Height 198mm, Spine 27mm
264g
INDEPENDENCE DAY meets LORD OF THE FLIES as a group of orphaned teenagers takes on an alien invasion
They call it the Sickness. Nobody knows what causes it or where it comes from. Nobody knows why it only seems to affect the adult population. But everyone knows that if you catch it and you're over 18, you die.All around the world, teenagers like Travis, Richie, Mel, Jessica and Simon, find themselves thrown together and forced to cooperate. But a world without rules is not the utopia many survivors thought it would be. Everything, now, is deadly serious. Those who can't adjust to their new situation find themselves going the same way as the adults. Factions form quickly. Some want to take what they need through strength of arms, but others - the most organised - want to try to rebuild the world their parents left behind. Restoring society will be hard, but not impossible. After all, they reason, the worst is over.But they're wrong. It's only just begun...'A good ripping yarn' - SFCrowsnest
Andrew Butcher teaches English part-time, and devotes the rest of his week to a rag-tag group of orphaned teenagers fighting a desperate resistance against alien invaders. He lives in Dorset with an unfeasibly large comic collection.
Author Location: Dorset