Survivors of a global plague battle for life on an empty planet. A gripping vision of a post-apocalyptic world... 'A fine piece of British post-apocalyptic fiction' 'Nation's novel is based on his original cult series...and is all the better for it, being far, far more gritty and realistic' SUNDAY SUN A virus has wiped out 95 per cent of the world's population in just a few weeks, leaving the remaining 5 per cent to stay alive in a world devoid of the most basic amenities - electricity, transport and medicine. The few survivors of the human race are forced to fall back on the most primitive skills in order to live and re-establish some semblance of law and order. Abby Grant, widowed by the plague, moves through this new dark age with determination, sustained by hope that her son, who fled his boarding school at the onset, has survived. She knows she must relearn the skills on which civilisation was built. With others, she founds a commune and the group return to the soil. But marauding bands threaten their existence. For Abby, there's a chance for a new life and love when she encounters James Garland, the fourteenth Earl of Woodhouse, who is engaged in a desperate fight to save his ancestral home. But more important, she must find her son.

Peter Grant has shot his mother. He is sixteen years old. Now he must survive after the Great Death which has killed all but a tiny percentage of the population. This dystopian thriller follows Peter, as he pursues a violent path between feuding gangs of warlords, and primitive communities, to his ultimate redemption. ‘Survivors: Genesis of a Hero' is amongst the first of the apocalyptic novels and is based on the famous British TV series of the 1970s. Relevant then, it is even more so today. Throughout Britain groups of survivors are banding together, forming primitive communities, and painfully re-learning forgotten but essential skills and crafts. The largest of these is the authoritarian National Unity Force, whose self-styled President, Arthur Wormley, has taken over the remnants of the armed services and now lives like a king in Windsor Castle with his scheming and ambitious ‘queen’, Sarah Boyer. But there are other groups organized on different lines—groups like the ‘Rat-Pack’, who live in the London Underground: the primitive capitalist community in the north whose leader is known simply as ‘The Trader’: and the ‘Red Dragons’, who mount guerrilla-type operations to prevent the NUF from spreading its power into Wales. This is a gripping story of violent conflict in a world of political idealism and power struggles, in which the keynote is survival.