The Sacrifice: An Enemy Novel (An Enemy Novel, 4) - Hardcover

Charlie Higson is an acclaimed comedy writer, producer, actor, and genuine James Bond aficionado. He is the author of the adult thrillers Full Whack and King of the Ants; the internationally best-selling Young Bond series: SilverFin, Blood Fever, Double or Die, Hurricane Gold, and By Royal Command; and four books in the Enemy series. Charlie is a fan of zombie movies and believes that we shouldn't try to prevent young people from experiencing fear, because it helps prepare them for later life. When writingThe Enemy, he kept rachetting up the action and description in an attempt to frighten the pants off his ten-year-old son. He lives in London. Follow him on Twitter at: twitter.com/monstroso.

4Q 5P This suspenseful, longed-for, fourth novel of the Enemy series takes the reader into the heart of London where the kids must now venture out to find family or replenish their food and water in order to survive. The disaster last year created a sickness which either wiped out everyone over the age of fourteen or turned them into diseased zombies with an insatiable hunger for children. Courageous, small Sam and his creative, funny, bright, somewhat mad sidekick, the Kid, manage to arrive safely at the tower, but barely take the time to rest before setting off to Buckingham Palace to find Sam's sister. Ed, the warrior, leads forays into the no-go zone to rescue little Sam and the Kid, but he and his team encounter terror, danger, and vile bloodbaths. Across London, organized camps of kids have set up and attempted to impose order via rules or religion, oftentimes with dictators. Meanwhile, Shadowman tries to convince the kids he meets that the dreadful zombies have begun to congregate and build their forces. Death, religion, friendship, survival, power, politics, and fear are explored throughout this installment. The storylines run full speed ahead in this horrifying page-turner. The solid writing is, at times, brilliant, such as the Kid's description of music. The unanswered questions will prime readers for the next in the series. This popular, dark dystopian tale with its combination of adventure, horror and suspense will appeal to many at both public and school libraries.-Ava Ehde VOYA"

This fourth, and apparently not final, book in The Enemy series finds yet more reasons to send members from various kid strongholds out into the "no-go zone," where the drooling, ravenous "sickos" seem to be developing a new kind of telepathic intelligence. But nine-year-old Sam is determined to join his sister in Buckingham Palace, so he takes to the lethal streets with two friends in tow, only to run across Higson's most unnerving character, religious nut Mad Matt, who believes that Sam is "the Lamb" that will lead the world from darkness. There's not much to differentiate teen leader Ed's subsequent rescue operation from similar sequences in previous volumes, and one is tempted to say the series is starting to generate diminishing returns. But the introduction of an intelligent sicko named Wormwood is a thrilling game-changer, and Higson once again impresses by largely avoiding sentimentality and romance to focus more realistically upon the "pulped, scabby, pus-oozing" threat. Onward we fight! - Daniel Kraus Booklist"