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'Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.' The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within ten hours, most people would be dead or insane. A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. And together with Tom McCourt and a teenage girl called Alice, he flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone...
| ISBN | 0340921447 | | Pages | 432 | | ISBN13 | 9780340921449
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 780 | | Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Hodder & Stoughton Ltd | | Height (mm) | 240 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 161 | | Publication date | 27 Feb 2006 | | Spine width (mm) | 37 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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