Tensions rise as gangs rule town
Lies Michael Grant Published by Egmont ISBN 9781405254304
Six months ago, something dreadful happened in the small coastal Californian town of Perdido Beach. A dome-shaped force settled over the area, and everyone above the age of 15 vanished into thin air.
All the town's children and young teenagers were left behind to fend for themselves. Cut off from the outside world, they formed a society to help them survive.
As some of the youngsters began to develop strange superpowers, the new society was split into two gangs - the posh Coates Academy and Perdido Beach children - who clashed with each other.
Teenager Sam Temple became the reluctant leader of the Beach youngsters as terrible struggles ensue.
Michael Grant's novels Gone and Hunger chronicle the events in Perdido Beach during the first six months of the youngsters' new existence. It was a violent and frightening time. In Lies, the third book in Grant's exciting series, the chaos and horror get worse.
The food situation has been resolved - though far from satisfactory, at least children are no longer dying from hunger. But new opposing factions continue to break out in the town, with gangs taking advantage of the fear and instability that exist.
The book is not for the faint-hearted as children become monsters and the good guys take on the baddies.
