Conspiracy theories, paranoid delusions, and alien abduction stories sprawl out of control and consume the public consciousness. Eventually, there’s fear, too – especially when a pastor in the United States seizes on the idea that the children are harbingers of the apocalypse (and that a fourth survivor in Cape Town must have emerged). These three children, Bobby, Hiro and Jess, are known to the world as the Three – the survivors of Black Thursday, and source of seemingly endless speculation and media attention. The last crash in Cape Town, South Africa, has no survivors… or does it?

In Portugal, a young British girl named Jess Croddock is recovered from the wreckage with minor injuries. In the Florida Everglades crash, the American Bobby Small inexplicably survives although everyone else perishes. From the plane that crashes in the Aokigahara forest, a Japanese boy named Hiro Yanagida emerges untouched. Every single passenger on each plane dies in the wreckage… except for three young children. This sounded like everything I could ever want in a horror novel.įour airplanes in four different parts of the world crash. When I received a copy of the gorgeous UK edition ARC from Ana, I was ecstatic. Why did I read this book: I have been coveting and eagerly anticipating this book ever since I first learned about it from our friends from Pornokitsch last Smugglivus. How did I get this book: ARC from the publisher (UK) The Three are forced to go into hiding, but as the children’s behaviour becomes increasingly disturbing, even their guardians begin to question their miraculous survival… This attention becomes more than just intrusive when a rapture cult led by a charismatic evangelical minister insists that the survivors are three of the four harbingers of the apocalypse. With terrorist attacks and environmental factors ruled out, there doesn’t appear to be a correlation between the crashes, except that in three of the four air disasters a child survivor is found in the wreckage.ĭubbed ‘The Three’ by the international press, the children all exhibit disturbing behavioural problems, presumably caused by the horror they lived through and the unrelenting press attention. Facing global panic, officials are under pressure to find the causes. The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents.

A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse. Publisher: Little, Brown (US) / Hodder and Stoughton (UK)įour simultaneous plane crashes.

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