Scott Andrews - School's Out Forever

The Afterblight Chronicles is an exciting series of high-action post-apocalypse fiction set in a world ruled by crazed gangs and strange cults.

This ain’t a complicated story, but then Cade wasn’t a complicated man. He didn’t exactly care about people, did Cade, but if one of the people he almost cared about was in trouble, he’d help out if he could. If that meant heading down to San Francisco — even though nobody ever came back from there alive — well, fine. If that meant taking on whole armies of religious maniacs, coupon-clipping cannibals and helter-skelter hippies who dealt out free love and fast death in equal measure, armed with nothing but his two fists and a decent hunting knife… well, I’m kind of runnin’ my mouth here. This ain’t a peaceful story, is what I’m tryin’ to say. And Cade… Cade wasn’t a peaceful man.

The Afterblight Chronicles is an exciting series of high-action post-apocalypse fiction set in a world ruled by crazed gangs and strange cults.

Kavika Kamalani is a Pali Boy, a post-plague heir to an ancient Hawai’ian warrior tradition that believes in overcoming death by embracing one’s fears and living large . His life on the Nomi No Toshi , the floating city, is turned upside down when one of his friends dies, harvested for his blood, and he sets out to find the killer.

Kidnapped himself and subjected to a terrifying transformation, Kavika must embrace the ultimate fear — death itself — if he, his loved ones, and the Pali Boys themselves are to survive.

“Weston is one of the best authors of our generation.”

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The Afterblight Chronicles is an exciting series of high-action post-apocalypse fiction set in a world ruled by crazed gangs and strange cults.

This omnibus published in 2012 by Abaddon Books™, Rebellion Intellectual Property Limited, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0ES, UK.

Editor-in Chief: Jonathan Oliver

Desk Editor: David Moore

Cover Art: Luke Preece

Original Series Cover Art: Mark Harrison

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The Afterblight Chronicles™ created by Simon Spurrier & Andy Boot

School’s Out Copyright © 2007 Rebellion.

Operation Motherland Copyright © 2009 Rebellion.

“The Man Who Would Not Be King” Copyright © 2009 Rebellion.

Children’s Crusade Copyright © 2010 Rebellion.

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ISBN (epub): 978-1-84997-438-7

ISBN (mobi): 978-1-84997-439-4

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