{"product_id":"2940150517516","title":"The Sixth Extinction Series \u0026 The First Three Weeks \u0026 The Sixth Extinction America Omnibus Edition (Parts 1 - 12)","description":"Mankind is no longer at the top of the food chain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SIXTH EXTINCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sixth Extinction is an apocalyptic tale about a pandemic that sweeps the globe, decimating the human race, leaving humanity struggling to survive. Within three weeks everything has changed. Social structure has collapsed. The police are non-existent, and the army concentrates on the cities. Gangs of yobs rule the streets. It becomes everyone for themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story follows three main characters, Noah, Red and Doctor Melanie Lazaro, as well as Betty and her simpleminded grandson, and a Squad of military personnel. It follows all their journeys of self-discovery through the changing world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNoah Morgan is just an average twenty-one-year-old. He has no aspirations in life, no girlfriend, few friends, and a dead-end job. Red is a nineteen-year-old female runaway, with a sad past and a disturbing secret. Together they leave behind everything they have ever known, looking for a safe haven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetty and her grandson Lennie are just trying to stay alive, and find somewhere safe to hide while they try to make sense of all the madness around them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Squad is a small group of military personnel who are trying to get back to the safety of their large base – a base that holds a secret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoctor Melanie Lazaro is working around the clock, under military supervision, in Exeter University's Biomedical Sciences Department, trying to create a cure for the new pandemic that is turning humans back to their primordial roots, creating mindless killing machines with only one purpose - to eat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe four-part series is a fast-paced story, all set within a twenty-four-hour time frame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SIXTH EXTINCTION: THE FIRST THREE WEEKS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe four part series is a prelude to The Sixth Extinction series. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe get to see what happened within the first three weeks of the outbreak from the point of view of the five main characters, set out in four new books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SIXTH EXTINCTION: AMERICA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow for the first time we jump from England to the United States and see how the Americans are dealing with the end of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial structure has collapsed as the American government locks itself away with a select portion of its vast army in deep bunkers, leaving the civilians to their own fate and the infected that stalks the streets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Story follows a group of fourteen strangers, who lived in an apartment building in the Fordham Heights area of New York City; they decide to band together, seeking shelter in a shipping container, on the back of a truck heading towards Pennsylvania and the promise of safety. Altogether, they are struggling to survive and come to terms with their new situation. However, they're a large group of people now living in close proximity. Tempers flare, and emotions run high as one disastrous situating leads to another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is also Doctor Nathan Bachman, a scientist working in Groom Lake, in the secret base often referred to as Area 51. However, it doesn't contain UFOs and little green men; its sole purpose is much more disturbing. It contains one of the seven pods – living artefact that our ancient forefathers buried beneath vast structures of stone, to save the world from their deadly, infectious black spores. When the base is compromised Bachman is airlifted to the secret Quirauk Mountain, Pennsylvania bunker. There an even more disturbing secret comes to light that makes everything before it pale in comparison.","brand":"Sinuous Mind Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172428890352,"sku":"2940150517516","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150517516_p0.jpg?v=1763747665","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150517516","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}