Lebbon, Tim

Marty Volk believes that he has a guardian angel who has saved him from danger several times since he was twelve years old. One night he gets a glimpse of his protector and believes her to be his dead sister Rose.

Two years after London is struck by a devastating terrorist attack, it is cut off from the rest of the world, protected by a large force of soldiers (known as Choppers) while the rest of Britain believe that their ex-capital is a toxic, uninhabited wasteland. But that's not true. Jack and his friends know that the truth is very different--and incredible: the few remaining survivors in London are changing; developing strange, fantastic powers; evolving.

Tom, still grieving for his son ten years after Steven was killed and hastily buried following what the British military said was a training accident, digs up Steven's grave only to find the rotting, but live corpse of a little girl who offers to help Tom find answers if he will set her free.

Two years after London is struck by a devasting terrorist attack, people begin turning into monsters and Jack and Lucy-Anne struggle to cope.