Thomas explores some promising premises... a brooding atmosphere of fear permeates his novel in a constant drizzle of menace
Yorkshire Post
Thomas effectively details the breakdown of established codes of behaviour and the depths of depravity to which humanity can sink... a gripping story
Guardian
This bleak scary and frequently moving novel has a lot of life in it
SFX Magazine
A talent worth watching
Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller
Thomas shakes concepts of 'normality' to the core. It is a challenge indeed for an author to capture authentic teenage dialogue... compelling subject matter
Independent on Sunday
A riveting and often moving read... The narrator's voice compels the narrative - he's a hugely likeable charachter... this is the best of its type that I've read in a long while. I'll be very interested to see what Thomas writes next
- John Boyne,
Society is on the brink of collapse. The Old World is vanishing, the New World is taking over. There are no rules. Not now that a deadly disease is spreading that causes its victims to turn violent. Previously loving people become murderous. No-one can tell who will turn and who will not.
A work of force and dark brilliance - the perfect expression of the terrors of the 21st Century
Society is on the brink of collapse. The Old World is vanishing, the New World is taking over. Not now that a deadly disease is spreading that causes its victims to turn violent. No-one can tell who will turn and who will not.
A work of force and dark brilliance - the perfect expression of the terrors of the 21st Century