Series: Book 1 in the Novels series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: EN-Thrillers, Lang:en
Summary
It begins on a very normal Monday
morning. But in the space of only a few days, the world's oil
supplies have been severed and at a horrifying pace things
begin to unravel everywhere. This is no natural disastersomeone
is behind this. Oil engineer Andy Sutherland is stranded in
Iraq with a company of British soldiers, desperate to find a
way home, trapped as the very infrastructure of daily life
begins to collapse around him. Back in Britain, his wife Jenny
is stuck in Manchester, fighting desperately against the rising
chaos to get back to their children in London as events begin
to spiral out of controlriots, raging fires, looting, rape, and
murder. In the space of a week, London is transformed into an
anarchic vision of hell. Meanwhile, a mysterious man is
tracking Andy's family. He'll silence anyone who can reveal the
identities of those behind this global disaster. The people
with a stranglehold on the future of civilization have flexed
their muscles at other significant tipping points in history,
and they are prepared to do anything to keep their secretand
their powersafe.