| Description: |
456 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note: |
"Originally self-published in 2014 in the United Kingdom by Adrian J. Walker. This edition issued based on the paperback edition published in 2016 in the United Kingdom by Del Ray, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, part of the Penguin Random House group of companies."--Title page verso. |
| Summary: |
Edgar Hill is thirty-five, overweight, an underperforming husband and reluctant father. After a catastrophic asteroid strike, Edgar and his family find refuge in an Edinburgh army barracks. Returning from a salvage run, Edgar finds his family gone, taken to the south coast for evacuation by an international task force. Edgar must race across the 550 miles of wasteland to find the people he loves before he loses them forever. |
| Subject: |
Long-distance runners -- Fiction.
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Running -- Fiction.
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Survival -- Fiction.
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End of the world -- Fiction.
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| Genre: |
Science fiction.
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Apocalyptic fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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| ISBN/ISSN: |
9781492656029 (paperback) |
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149265602X (paperback) |
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