Ex-isle

Zusatztext “Riveting…a zombies-versus-superheroes franchise that seems destined for the big screen.”— LA Weekly The Avengers  meets  The Walking Dead  with a large order of epic served on the side.”—Ernest Cline! New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One.  Informationen zum Autor PETER CLINES has published several pieces of short fiction and countless articles on the film and television industries, as well as the novels The Fold , Ex-Heroes, Ex-Patriots, Ex-Communication , Ex-Purgatory , and 14 .  He lives and writes in southern California. Klappentext "It is an easy thing to rule by fear." It's been years since the tidal wave of ex-humans washed over the world. Since then, thanks to St George and his fellow heroes, the community known as the Mount has been the last known outpost of safety, sanity, and freedom left to humanity. But even for the Mount, survival still balances on a razor's edge-and after a disaster decimates the town's food supply, the heroes must make a risky gamble to keep its citizens from starving. And then the news arrives of a strange, man-made island in the middle of the Pacific. An island populated not just by survivors, but by people who seem to be farming, raising children, living-people who, like the heroes, have somehow managed to keep the spark of civilization alive. Paying this place a visit should be a simple goodwill mission, but as the island reveals itself to be a sinister mirror-image of what the heroes have built at the Mount, the cost of their good intentions becomes dangerously high. Prologue   NOW               Pretty much everything St. George could see was on fire at this point, including most of the zombies.             The fire had started a block south of the Big Wall about four hours earlier, just before sundown.  Nobody was sure how.  The flames crawled north across a dozen overgrown lawns that hadn’t been watered in five years or rained on in five months.  Then they climbed a few trees, and a light wind had pushed embers into the houses.             Now three city blocks of inferno lit up the night.  The blaze reached for the Big Wall as it looked for more to consume, and the people of the Mount fought back as best they could.  Half of them ferried buckets of water out to the flames or beat down the lawns with damp blankets.  The other half—and St. George—pulled guard duty, keeping the firefighters safe from the exes.             The zombies—the ex-humans—had first appeared years ago.  The undead had overrun cities, then countries, then whole continents.  In the space of a year, the population of Earth dropped by more than ninety percent.             The living population, anyway.             Now millions of exes walked the streets of Los Angeles, and hundreds of them stumbled through the flames around the Mount.  The click-click-click of their teeth meshed with the pop and crackle of burning wood.  Sound and movement attracted them.  Sound and movement and food.             The one St. George held by the throat pawed at him and clicked its teeth.  It flailed at his face and scraped against the black leather of his jacket.  The dead thing had a better chance of getting through the leather than through  St. George’s stone-like skin. Two of the ex’s gaunt fingers hooked in his long hair but slid free as fast as they’d gotten tangled.             Yellow-orange flames raced across its body, burning away clothes and hair.  It could’ve been a woman once, or a slim man with long hair.  Too much of its body had burned for him to be sure.  Ex-flesh didn’t catch fire easily, dried out from years in the sun, but their hair and clothes could burn.  Sometimes, when it did, what little fat they had left became fuel, just like a candle.             St. George flicked his wrist ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Clines
• Editore: Broadway Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780553418316
• ISBN: 978-0-553-41831-6
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 136 mm x 206 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Ex-Heroes; Ex-Heroes
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy