Jeff Hirsch - The Eleventh Plague

JEFF HIRSCH graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with an MFA in Dramatic Writing, and The Eleventh Plague is his debut novel. He lives in Astoria, New York, with his wife. Visit him online at www.jeff-hirsch.com.

Cover art & design © 2011 by Phil Falco

Copyright © 2011 by Jeff Hirsch

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hirsch, Jeff.

The eleventh plague / Jeff Hirsch. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, fifteen-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen’s life is turned upside down.

ISBN 978-0-545-29014-2

[1. Survival — Fiction. 2. Science fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.H59787E1 2011

[Fic] — dc22

2010048966

First edition, September 2011

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