Plague

Gone Series

Author: Michael Grant

Book 4 in the Gone series

Pages: 526

Published: 2011

Age: 14+

It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror continues to build. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach.

But enemies in the FAYZ don't just fade away, and in the quiet, deadly things are stirring, mutating, and finding their way free. The Darkness has found its way into the mind of its Nemesis at last and is controlling it through a haze of delirium and confusion. A highly contagious, fatal illness spreads at an alarming rate. Sinister, predatory insects terrorize Perdido Beach.

With so much turmoil surrounding them, what desperate choices will Sam and his friends make when it comes to saving themselves and those they love?

About the Gone Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.Gone(2008)
  2. 2.Hunger(2009)
  3. 3.Lies(2010)
  4. 4.Plague(2011)
  5. 5.Fear(2012)
  6. 6.Light(2013)
  7. 7.Monster(2017)
  8. 8.Villian(2018)
  9. 9.Hero(2019)

Reading age: 14+ years

This series should be read in order.

In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. GONE. Except for the young: teens, middle schoolers, toddlers remain, but not one single adult. No teachers, cops, doctors or parents. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet and no television. No way to get help and no way to figure out what's happened. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents - unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers - that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out because on your fifteenth birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...