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Through the Yellow Death
‘Through The Yellow Death’ is set in a post-apocalyptic South-West of England in the near future. It follows the survivors of a global plague that has reduced the world to a brutal and lawless wilderness.
John has Asperger’s Syndrome and lives on the edge of Society. He is a loner, socially inept and friendless. He works from home at a job he has grown to hate. His only satisfaction comes from his obsession with the military, but even that is restricted by chronic injury.
One day he awakes to find he has survived a global pandemic that has all but wiped out the human population.
For most survivors, the Yellow Death is a shock they may never to come to terms with. But John has never fitted into Society’s rules and he sheds no tears for the old world. He sees it as a chance to reinvent himself – to become the person he felt he should have been, living by his own wits and beholden to no one. He believes his knowledge of military matters will give him a head start over other survivors. However, events lead him down a different path to the one he has chosen. Against his nature he must find a way to live and work with other people.
Kim has been abused and betrayed by men all her life and knows they can not be trusted. Her experiences after the Yellow Death only reinforce that view. However, events lead her to a point where she has to face her worst fears to save the life of her friends.
John and Kim have had very different life journeys but, against their instincts, they must both learn to trust other people if they are to survive in the new world.
At around 280,000 words, this is an epic read with a complex plot. Peter Hall uses a possible scenario of the near future to explore thought provoking issues facing modern society and asks questions such as; 'Can torture ever be justified?' and 'Can rape every be excused?'. Find us on Facebook.
John has Asperger’s Syndrome and lives on the edge of Society. He is a loner, socially inept and friendless. He works from home at a job he has grown to hate. His only satisfaction comes from his obsession with the military, but even that is restricted by chronic injury.
One day he awakes to find he has survived a global pandemic that has all but wiped out the human population.
For most survivors, the Yellow Death is a shock they may never to come to terms with. But John has never fitted into Society’s rules and he sheds no tears for the old world. He sees it as a chance to reinvent himself – to become the person he felt he should have been, living by his own wits and beholden to no one. He believes his knowledge of military matters will give him a head start over other survivors. However, events lead him down a different path to the one he has chosen. Against his nature he must find a way to live and work with other people.
Kim has been abused and betrayed by men all her life and knows they can not be trusted. Her experiences after the Yellow Death only reinforce that view. However, events lead her to a point where she has to face her worst fears to save the life of her friends.
John and Kim have had very different life journeys but, against their instincts, they must both learn to trust other people if they are to survive in the new world.
At around 280,000 words, this is an epic read with a complex plot. Peter Hall uses a possible scenario of the near future to explore thought provoking issues facing modern society and asks questions such as; 'Can torture ever be justified?' and 'Can rape every be excused?'. Find us on Facebook.
580 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 22, 2011
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