The country is on its knees. In the wake of the plague, the cities fell foul to the gangs. Those lucky enough to escape fled into the countryside to start again, away from the sickness and the violence. John does not remember his mother. He was only a small boy when the culling struck and the memories of those months, where he was forced to live alone in the squalor of his derelict house, will haunt him forever. But he was one of the lucky ones. The farm is safe and secure, lost in the overgrown wild lands on the very edge of civilisation. John and Ryan have everything that they food, protection, each other. But when Ryan fails to return from a trip to the Refuge, everything changes. Alone again, the demons from his past return, forcing John to make a decision that will send him on a journey south, back down into what is left of the destroyed world. Only this time things are different. This time things are much, much worse. Blight is the third book in the Human Zoo series.