EXPERIENCE FOR YOURSELF THIS STRIKING NIGHTMARE VISION OF A WORLD DESCENDING INTO BRUTAL VIOLENCE. EVERYONE OVER THE AGE OF NINETEEN BECOMES MURDEROUSLY INSANE. THEY BEGIN KILLING. ESPECIALLY THEIR OWN CHILDREN . Saturday. An ordinary day. People out shopping. Going to the movies. Eating fast-food. Just an ordinary Saturday. Right? Wrong. Twenty-four hours later, civilization has been torn apart. Adults begin roaming the streets in howling mobs. They have become murderously insane and nobody under the age of nineteen is safe. Running through the burning ruins of cities is seventeen-year-old Nick Aten. Nick has discovered that his brother has been murder. And now he is fleeing tens of thousands of homicidally deranged adults who will, if they catch him, tear him apart. This is a ruined land. Teenagers fight for survival. They band together, trying to make sense of the disaster that has ripped their lives apart. The young survivors find food, new homes - and they find that even within their new group of friends there are vicious battles to become the ruler of their fragile communities. NOT ONLY ARE THE ADULTS BLOOD CRAZY...TEENAGER WILL SPILL THE BLOOD OF TEENAGER. THIS IS A NEW WORLD OF TERROR. A NEVERENDING BATTLE TO SURVIVE. THERE IS AN ETERNAL MYSTERY AT THE HEART OF THIS STORY THAT CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE HISTORY. AND THAT MYSTERY LIVES WITHIN US. IT SHAPES OUR LIVES. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US WILL FEEL ITS IRRESISTIBLE POWER.