February

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Parker is the author of over twenty books for children and young adults. He lives in New York City with his wife, a dog, and a psychotic cat named Bootsie. He is a Leo. When he isn't writing, he is tirelessly traveling the world on a doomed mission to achieve rock-and-roll stardom. As of this date, his musical credits include the composition of bluegrass soundtrack numbers for the film The Grave (starring a bloated Anthony Michael Hall) and a brief stint performing live rap music to baffled Filipino audiences in Hong Kong. Mr. Parker once worked in a cheese shop. He was fired. Klappentext It's 1999. Do you know where your parents are? It's been one month since a savage plague killed everyone on earth except teenagers. The young survivors thought they had lived through the worst of it. But now, driven from cities overrun with violence, fueled by hunger and desperation, they are about to come face-to-face with an even greater threat: Each other. Leseprobe CHAPTER ONE Highway Four, Northeast of Haifa, Israel 6:45 P.M. "Where are we going?" Josh Levy asked the driver. There was no answer. "Let me out." "Shut up," came the heavily accented reply. Original, Josh thought. These two schmucks seemed to know only four English words: shut up and sit down. "Just be thankful you're alive," the other one muttered. Make that nine English words. Why should I be thankful? Josh wondered, infuriated. Without the scroll we're all gonna die, anyway. I've been your prisoner for three days now. Three days! Seventy-two hours with Jacob and Meyer, the teenage Homer Simpsons of the Israeli army. Your combined IQ doesn't add up to my shoe size. I'd be a lot more thankful if I were dead. "Be thankful." Josh closed his eyes, spent from his silent rage. He had no energy. Everything seemed to make him tired. Thinking made him tired. Bouncing up and down in the backseat of this dilapidated Jeep made him tired. So did being around Meyer and Jacob. God, they were idiots. Baldy and Fatso, he'd privately nicknamed them. They weren't only making him tired, they were driving him insane. And the heat. Ever since he'd been kidnapped, a freak heat wave had swept over Israel. It was the kind of heat that made his pulse race, that made his bony chest heave -- the kind of heat that kept his curly black hair soaked in a perpetual sweat. It wasn't supposed to be this hot here in the wintertime. It was unnatural. It was more than unnatural. So much so, in fact, that Josh knew the climate must be connected to the Prophecies. In February the changes begin, the scroll had said. As the Chosen One suffers, the earth suffers with her. The cold is colder, the heat unbearably intense.... But why even think about that? The scroll had fallen out of his hands. And what these two dolts didn't understand was that Josh had to recover it. He had to get back to Jerusalem. He had to find Sarah. Why wouldn't they listen to him? It was crazy! Their lives depended on it as much as his did! Everybody's lives depended on deciphering the code hidden in the scroll. "Hey, kid," Jacob said. Haay, keed. Josh groaned. More than anything, he wanted to grab Jacob's machine gun and shoot him. But he couldn't move. In addition to being utterly exhausted, frustrated, and overheated, his body still ached from yesterday's drive. He'd never been on a ride like that. Ever. Now he knew what it was like to be a pinball. For some unfathomable reason Baldy and Fatso had decided to embark on a wild journey through the rocky, hole-ridden, wreckage-strewn back roads of the desert. But today they were perfectly content to drive on the highway. It was ludicrous. Nothing they did made any sense. "Hey, kid," Jacob said again. "Hey -- " "I'm not a kid," Josh interrupted flatly. "I'm fiftee...

Product details

• Authors: Parker, Daniel Parker
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.2014
• EAN: 9781481425872
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-2587-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Countdown; Countdown
• Subject: Children's and young people's books