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The Human Zoo
The Human Zoo
Series · 4 books · 2017-2018
By
Kolin Wood
Books in series
#1
The Human Zoo
2017
WARNING: DARK CONTENT The General has a vision. He wants to build an army, one strong enough that it can walk into the apocalypse and stake a claim on what is left. From inside the dark and dank walls of the young offenders institution his ideas for a strong, new society are being realised; but at what cost? Like the others, Juliana was snatched during a violent raid on her home. If she ever hopes to see her little boy again, she must first survive the horror and degradation of her incarceration. But the years of abuse have taken their toll and things are getting worse. Does she have what it takes to finally escape the clutches of the General and his perverse army of juveniles? Or will the prison see her sent down into the cells below, the ones from where nobody ever returns? The Human Zoo is a blood-soaked horror story set against the urban back drop of a post- apocalyptic London, a dangerous, lawless city where only the strong and merciless will survive.
#2
The New Capital
2017
This is the second book in the Human Zoo Series WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS SCENES OF STRONG VIOLENCE AND HORROR The New Capital – A lawless place where life is cheap and blood runs freely in the muddy streets. A place where all but the elite live in poverty under the tight control of an ages old establishment and where the weekly entertainment sees two men pitted against each other in a brutal, no-holds barred contest to the death in The Pit. Having survived her incarceration, Juliana makes her way to the New Capital hell bent on revenge. But are things on the outside any better than they were in the prison? And even if she manages to make it inside, how will she find and kill the man responsible for the death of her family? Will Teddy Braden, the ego-maniac in charge of the brutal pit fights and her father, realise who she is in time to help her? After his destruction of Krane, Tanner is now the new champion. In order to secure a deal to ensure his safe passage from the city he’s agreed to two more fights. But bets have been made and the stakes are high. Tanner will need to stand against the very worst that the country has to offer if he is to stand any chance of making it out of the Pit alive.
#3
Blight
2018
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.
#4
The Ruin Nation
2018
The Refuge. The great bastion of the North. A place of summer festivities, music and free trade, where dreams are built and realised. A place of hope. But things are not all as they seem. Some of the residents are beginning to fall sick, and the bodies keep disappearing. A strange cult known locally as ‘the Church of Ruin’ has been clearing up the streets and taking people in; those men not of sound mind—the deranged and the crazy. And all the while, an ancient evil is lurking in the tunnels beneath the streets, growing in size and in number with every passing day. Doyle, detached and depressed, has not been seen since they arrived. Will Juliana persuade Tanner to help her travel into the dark underbelly of the city to find him? Along the way, will they finally find something worth fighting for, and make a stand? Will John, accompanied by his new friend Becca, finally discover what happened to Ryan? And, have the horrors that they witnessed in the far north, followed them down as far as the Refuge? The Ruin Nation is a dark, post-apocalyptic horror tale set in the decrepit ruins of the former United Kingdom. It is the fourth and final book in the Human Zoo series.
Author
Kolin Wood
Author · 5 books