Skitter
By (Author) Ezekiel Boone
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
11th January 2018
2nd November 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
352
Width 207mm, Height 127mm, Spine 22mm
248g
Tens of millions of people around the world are dead. Half of China is a nuclear wasteland. Mysterious flesh-eating spiders are marching through Los Angeles, Oslo, Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, and countless other cities. According to scientist Melanie Gruyer, however, the spider situation seems to be looking up.
Yet in Japan, a giant, truck-sized, glowing egg sack is discovered, even as survivors in Los Angeles panic and break the quarantine zone. Out in the desert, survivalists Gordo and Shotgun are trying to invent a weapon to defeat the spiders. But even if they succeed it may be too late, because President Stephanie Pilgrim has been forced to enact the plan of last resort: The Spanish Protocol. Every country must fight for itself. And the spiders are on the move...Why are humans afraid of spiders With a multi-stranded narrative that traps you as effectively as a silken web, Skitter makes the answer all too clear. * DAILY MAIL *
Smart writing underpins the terror
in this second instalment in a continuing
series, which is sufficiently selfcontained
to be highly enjoyable even
for those who missed the first episode.
Ezekiel Boone lives in the United States with his family and has an entirely healthy respect for spiders everywhere.