The fragility of the world is exposed in a stark and brutal new way in Alex Scarrow's latest disturbing thriller.
When a series of events around the world brings temporary halt to global oil production, the repercussions are instant and cataclysmic; economic collapse followed – within days – by complete social breakdown across the world.
Andy Sutherland, a civilian engineer, is stranded in lraq with a company of soldiers when the British army is forced to pull out. Desperate to find a way home to his family, he is trapped as transport links and the very infrastructure of daily life collapses around him. Back in London , Andy's children are marooned on their own as events begin to spiral out of control; food riots, looting, rape and worse. In the space of a week, London is transformed into a lawless and chaotic visioin of hell.
But the closer Andy gets to home, the more he senses a plan behind this apocalypse, and the realization dawns that someone may be after him, or worse still, his family, for what he is beginning to understand…
