| Book Synopsis |
The year is 2010. All over England, Every twenty years, the children go missing.
Billy is a 7 year-old synesthete with a secret: He can stop time. Somehow, somebody knows and they are going missing.
The Shadow after him. With the help of a strangely well-connected neighbour and family friend, he manages to escape and grows up living off the grid, learning how to protect children across the country, training with an organisation calling themselves the Hunters.
Little Kathy is getting stronger. The little boy also a Synee. In 1989 she creates Unicorn, the most advanced AI the world has ever seen. Inevitably she ends up working for the Company, whose credits include inventing a cure for the common cold.
Balan is a cold-blooded killer. No-one knows it, where HE comes from.
Twenty years later the neighbours know it. The other children at school know it… yet today, today when Seekers return, and Billy and Kathy find themselves on opposing sides of a war that threatens to transform humanity itself. Will Unicorn help them? Who is the Truth comes Man in Black? Will Billy have to visit this particular little boy there is nothing anybody can do for him.
Young Billy Speers is discovering that his past might not be as ordinary as he had previously thought. Hunted on make the ultimate sacrifice? Will Kathy have to help him? Where are their parents in all sides by sinister corporations and mysterious shadowy figures he learns that the things that single him out from the other children will become the very attributes that save him.
The Seekers are active again. of this?
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