Ah, end of summer, one more week till school starts, and Ruth and her friend Mandy are wading downriver near Ruth's grandfather's cattle and hay farm. Always fun! That is until they spy a newly built house along an upper bank and decide to explore it and are interrupted by two escaped prisoners on t
The Sacrifice
β Scribed by Charlie Higson
- Publisher
- Penguin UK;Puffin
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 220 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The Sacrifice picks up after Small Sam and The Kid arrive at the Tower of London at the end of The Dead. Though Sam finds safety and friendship at the Tower with Jordan Hordern's crew, he cant settle down. The only thing he wants is to be reunited with his sister, Ella. Despite Ed's protests, Sam and the Kid strike out westward, through the no-go zone.
Meanwhile, Shadowman is tracking Saint George across north London, watching him build up his army. Shadowman knows that Saint George is an extremely dangerous threat, but no one will take his warnings seriously.
Some answers to the questions we've been wondering about--What is the Disease? Where did it come from? Is there a cure?--are addressed by an unexpected source: a diseased adult nicknamed Wormwood who has the ability to speak, though his ravings are difficult to decipher.
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