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  • Published: 15 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9780553418316
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

Ex-Isle

A Novel



The spectacular fifth adventure in the genre-busting Ex-Heroes series

“It is an easy thing to rule by fear.”

It’s been years since the tidal wave of ex-humans washed over the world. Since then, thanks to St George and his fellow heroes, the community known as the Mount has been the last known outpost of safety, sanity, and freedom left to humanity.

But even for the Mount, survival still balances on a razor’s edge—and after a disaster decimates the town’s food supply, the heroes must make a risky gamble to keep its citizens from starving. 

And then the news arrives of a strange, man-made island in the middle of the Pacific. An island populated not just by survivors, but by people who seem to be farming, raising children, living—people who, like the heroes, have somehow managed to keep the spark of civilization alive.

Paying this place a visit should be a simple goodwill mission, but as the island reveals itself to be a sinister mirror-image of what the heroes have built at the Mount, the cost of their good intentions becomes dangerously high.

  • Published: 15 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9780553418316
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Peter Clines

Peter Clines grew up in the Stephen King fallout zone of Maine and started writing science fi ction and fantasy stories at the age of eight with his fi rst “epic novel,” Lizard Men from the Center of the Earth. He made his fi rst writing sale at age seventeen to a local newspaper, and in the years since then he’s ghostwritten two books, published a handful of short stories, and the fi rst screenplay he wrote got him an open door to pitch story ideas at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager. After working in the fi lm and television industry for almost fi fteen years, he wrote countless articles and reviews for Creative Screenwriting Magazine and its free CS Weekly online newsletter, where he interviewed dozens of Hollywood’s biggest screenwriters and upcoming stars. He currently lives and writes somewhere in Los Angeles.

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