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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 COUNT DOWN It's 1999. The overpopulation problem has been solved. On a planet decimated by a brutal plague. The number one pastime has been staying alive. The survivors -- teenagers -- thought they were the only people left on earth. But they are about to discover they're not alone. Something is watching them. Something ancient. Something evil. Something that has waited for centuries for its time to arrive.... The wait is finally over. Leseprobe CHAPTER ONE Citicorp Building Seattle, Washington 9:30 A.M. "Go!...Go!...Go!... I really can't deal with the college-frat-party vibe, Ariel Collins thought dizzily. True, she was lying on her back with a rubber hose rammed into her mouth, gulping beer as fast as she could. But how could she be expected to maintain control with all this stupid yelling? For one thing, she was profoundly wasted. For another, she was about to start cracking up. And an attack of the giggles would not be in her best interest right now. No. "Whatever you do, Ariel, don't laugh." Oh, crap -- All at once her throat caught, and the expanding mass of fizzy warmth seemed to surge back through her gullet. The next thing she knew, she was shrieking with laughter and spewing beer all over herself. "Loser!" the chorus of voices hooted at once. All right. Enough was enough. She had to regain some semblance of dignity. She rolled over on the dingy red carpet and struggled to sit up straight. Her eyes were stinging -- but she didn't know if that was because of the beer or the morning sun. It was way too bright in this lobby. A tangle of stringy, beer-soaked, brownish blond hair flopped in front of her face. "You can't do that, Caleb!" she cried. She coughed a few times between giggles. "There's beer coming out of my nose!" Caleb Walker stood directly over her, clutching the hose with his right hand. He rubbed his left hand on the one ratty T-shirt he possessed: a black rag that drooped from his beanpole frame like a wilted leaf. "Do what?" he asked. He flashed an innocent grin. "Beer's good for your nose. Good for your hair, too. We're out of shampoo, remember?" She tried to scowl at him, but she ended up giggling again. It was crazy: Just looking at Caleb was enough to make her laugh. She could honestly stare at that goofy smile and those bright blue eyes for hours. And the amazing thing was that he seemed to get better looking with each passing day. He'd lost a lot of weight -- they all had -- but his sinewy slimness, was, well...kind of sexy. Especially with that wild mane of long brown hair. Not that she would ever tell him or anything, obviously. Caleb cocked an eyebrow. "Anyway, since when do you make the rules?" "In case you forgot, chump, I'm the one who constructed this magnificent funnel. Therefore I alone am responsible for any rules regarding its use." She was pleased with it, actually -- in spite of the sarcasm. For the first time ever, she'd created something with her own hands. On a whim she'd found an old funnel and a six-foot length of hose and fastened them together all by herself. From scratch, no less. Trevor (may he rot in hell) would have been proud. He was always so cocky about being the one family member with any...

Product details

• Authors: Parker, Daniel Parker
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.2014
• EAN: 9781481425896
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-2589-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Countdown; Countdown
• Subject: Children's and young people's books