Customer Reviews
Badly written - By: Brian Abbott, 11 May 2008 
Although the story line is OK & it is quite pacey, this book is let down by its poor dialogue, poor characterisation & just plain bad writing. It reads in parts like an Enid Blyton Famous Five book.
Teetering on the edge. - By: Michael Watson, 22 Apr 2008 
This is Paul Hinton's first part of the trilogy, introducing us to the dilemma facing the remaining humans following a devastaing world war.
Having come through the war, the survivors group together to try to re-establish themselves. Unfortunately, their attempts are thwarted, not only by other marauding thugs but also by a far more potent enemy which, since the war, has become revitalised, more terrible & far more brutal than the afore-mentioned human thugs.
This then, is the story of how the survivors deal with these different menaces & since this is a trilogy it would spoil it to reveal where the survivors find themselves at the end - and, indeed, how they got there!
The book rattles along. There's very little not happening on every page & the author creates a vision of a very damaged England after the war & the interesting techniques the leader of the survivors, with his miltary background, uses to keep his few remaining friends alive & kicking.
If you like an action thriller with a touch of the horror of the unknown thrown in for good measure, this book will fill the spot. I hope book 2 is not far away.
