Bøker av Chris Weitz

En mystisk sykdom har tatt livet av store deler av verdens befolkning. Bare de unge, de under 18, har overlevd og samlet seg i forskjellige stammer i New York.Jefferson og Donna er medlemmer i stammen som holder til rundt Washington Square. Sammen prøver de å overleve i alt kaoset. Da et annet stammemedlem oppdager noe som kan være nøkkelen til sykdommen som tar livet av alle på 18-årsdagen, drar fem av ungdommene i stammen ut på en livsfarlig road-trip for å redde menneskeheten.]]>

They thought they were the only ones left. They were wrong.After the unexpected revelation at the end of the first book, Donna and Jefferson are separated. Jefferson returns to NYC and tries to bring a cure to the Sickness back to the Washington Square tribe, while Donna finds herself in England, facing an unimaginable new world. Can the two reunite and prevent an even greater disaster than the Sickness?This second book in The Young World trilogy will keep you at the edge of your seat.

Welcome to New York, a city ruled by teens.After a mysterious Sickness wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors assemble into tightly run tribes. Jefferson, the reluctant leader of the Washington Square tribe, and Donna, the girl he's secretly in love with, have carved out a precarious existence among the chaos. But when another tribe member discovers a clue that may hold the cure to the Sickness, five teens set out on a life-altering road trip to save humankind.The tribe exchanges gunfire with enemy gangs, escapes cults and militias, braves the wilds of the subway and Central Park . . . and discovers truths they could never have imagined.