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| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Genres: | Young Adult Books, Science Fiction, Fantasy Books |
| Authors: | Garth Nix |
| Pages: | 352 pages |
| ISBN10: | 0064471969 |
| ISBN13: | 9780064471961 |
| Tags: | Young Adult Books, Science Fiction, Fantasy Books, Free Download, PDF Download |
| Language: | en |
| Physical Form: | PDF Book |
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In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest resulting in the construction of a machinelike creature whose sole purpose is to kill.
The mysterious Shade -- once a man, but now more like the machines he fights -- recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape. With luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shade's children come closer than any to discovering the source of the Overlords' power -- and the key to their downfall. But the closer the children get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become ...
