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'A vision of the future drawing on the terrors of our present: pandemics, food shortages, climate change and cyber war — is the only solution to retreat into hibernation? But what will be waiting for you to wake up?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Author's note: The Collapse is a witness account of modern apocalypse, and prelude to the world of The Hunt for Pierre Junior, and a bridge to the next story of Thought Empire: The Second Dark Age.
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'Pierre Jnr has a mind more powerful than any the world has encountered before. He can make you forget, he can control you and he is only eight years old. Three months after his birth he escaped. An hour later he was lost to sur. No one knows where he has been for the last eight years ... Now Pierre Jnr is about to return.'
'The Hunt for Pierre Jnr follows the activities of an elite group dedicated to tracking down the eight-year-old boy who is currently the greatest threat humanity has ever known. It′s a pacy and gripping chase, and an impressive vision of our future.' (Publisher's blurb)