Shortlisted for the Bookstrust teenage prize for fiction! Living in London is a dangerous time for anyone over the age of fourteen. A mystery illness has spread like a plague epidemic, leaving those ravaged by the disease either dead or in a crazy stupor that causes them to behave like feral beings. Meanwhile all the younger kids are neglected and at risk from the adults wild animal like actions, whilst trying to organise themselves to survive, and not destroy each other in the process. The enemy is an amusing, interesting read with an unusual combination of gore and morality.
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