Horror

The three

by Sarah LotzBook 1 of 2 in The Three
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Description

Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child survivors. A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he's right? The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. Facing global panic, officials are under pressure to find the causes. With terrorist attacks and environmental factors ruled out, there doesn't appear to be a correlation between the crashes, except that in three of the four air disasters a child survivor is found in the wreckage. Dubbed 'The Three' by the international press, the children all exhibit disturbing behavioural problems, presumably caused by the horror they lived through and the unrelenting press attention. This attention becomes more than just intrusive when a rapture cult led by a charismatic evangelical minister insists that the survivors are three of the four harbingers of the apocalypse. The Three are forced to go into hiding, but as the children's behaviour becomes increasingly disturbing, even their guardians begin to question their miraculous survival.

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
HorrorTerrifying

Details

First published
May 20, 2014
Pages
467
Reading time
About 9 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Language
English
ISBN
9781444770377
Series
The Three, Book 1

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