Cold PeopleWhat if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat? From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for

the more complicated the conspiracy appears to be

" - London Times As a child

and The Rotters' Club

it is Stacey Halls' most ambitious and captivating novel yet

dragging strange shoals of flotsam through the turbine fields

faces bloody personal consequences when his enemies hatch a vicious assassination plot

including the family of the author's grandfather

In the Dark Time of midwinter

four years after they vanquished Odoursin and saved humankind from his terrifying plans

on Sorcerer to the Crown

Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption

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