Harvey and Sarah live a happy, quiet life in the hillside - until the world around them suddenly changes. It begins with the television transmitters failing to broadcast programs. Then the electrical power supply drops out, and the phone falls silent, too. An eerie grey haze covers the land, while a deceptive silence hovers over the fields and Harvey's house. At night he is sure he hears creatures creeping around the house. A short encounter with one of these creatures in the garden brings him the terrible certainty that he hasn't been imagining things. Determined to learn what the hell happened, Harvey drives over to his old friend, Murphy, who runs a small grocer's shop a few miles down the road. But Murphy is no longer the same man he once knew. Harvey's friend has gone inexplicably mad... ———————————————————————————————- "It's so dark and melancholic and yet a real page-turner. Wow! The subliminal, ongoing threat that from the very first page runs through the book is characterized so perfectly. I just want to say 'Thanks' for this great reading experience and give it a grade A (and I really give this one only very, very, very, very and very seldom.)" - Royston Vasey