Puffin cardcover.  ADVANCE READING COPY of the 1st book in the NEW CHARLIE HIGSON SERIES.  SIGNED BY AITHOR TO TITLE PAGE AT EVENT IN LIVERPOOL.  Several promo items included.  massive publicity and a TV programme.   Product Description:  They’ll chase you. They’ll rip you open. They’ll feed on you . . . When the sickness came, every parent, policeman, politician  every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen remain, and they’re fighting to survive. Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city  down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground  the grown-ups lie in wait. But can they make it there alive?