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January 2016
On Sale: January 5, 2016
Featuring: Randy Knox; Serena Coulson
ISBN: 1476780927
EAN: 9781476780924
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Science Fiction | Young Adult Science Fiction
From two time Shamus Award winner Brendan DuBois comes a
terrifying and original tale of a world populated mostly by
teens, who are fighting to save their lives . . . and the
future of planet Earth. A decade ago, the alien Creepers came to Earth, dropping
asteroids to drown our coastal cities, detonating nuclear
weapons overhead to destroy our communications, power and
computer systems, and to set up their network of killer
stealth satellites to kill anything on our planet that used
modern technology. In a matter of days, Earth was driven
back to a nineteenth century existence. Then the war really began, as the Creepers descended and set
up domed bases that were impervious to everything save a
nuclear bomb. For ten years then, the battered and surviving members of
humanity have fought against the Creepers and their
mechanized exoskeletons, until something unexpected has
happened: a chance for victory. Sixteen-year-old Randy Knox has the usual problems of a
teenage boy: getting along with his father, dating his
sweetheart, and trying not to fail his junior year of high
school. But Randy also has other demands on his time, as a
sergeant in the N.H. National Guard, attached to the U.S.
Army, and fighting the invading Creepers. Randy has dim memories of a time of electric lights, laptop
computers, television screens and above all, plenty of food
at every meal. On his twelfth birthday, he enlisted in the
Army to carry on the fight, since most of the world’s adults
have been killed off and it’s up to the younger generations
to serve. But now, as a veteran of the Creeper war and with
his K-9 partner Thor, Randy has learned to focus on the
essentials: the best way to kill a Creeper, scrounge through
abandoned buildings for old canned goods, and to avoid being
turned into “barbecue bait.” He has earned the Bronze Star,
two Purple Hearts, and the Combat Infantryman Badge. Endless
war is all he knows. But now change has drastically come to his life. The current
President of the United States has announced that scattered
remnants of the Air Force have destroyed the Creeper’s
Orbital Base, ensuring victory over the alien invaders.
Those surviving Creepers on the Earth’s surface will be
hunted down and exterminated, as a weary and wary population
celebrates victory. Yet Randy is assigned a new mission: to escort a secret
representative from the Governor of New Hampshire to the
nation’s capital, to meet with the President. And at the
last moment, a fellow teen soldier—the beautiful Serena
Coulson and her mute younger brother Buddy—are assigned to
join Randy. This secretive mission proves to be the most dangerous
assignment of his life, as Randy tries to protect his
charges from rampaging Creepers and criminal humans. And as
he fights to reach the capitol with a vital mission, Randy
learns that all of his skills in combating aliens may not be
enough to survive the dark conspiracies of his fellow humans.
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