TY  - BOOK
AU  - Markham,Lee
TI  - The truants
SN  - 9781468313871 (hardcover)
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - Overlook Duckworth
KW  - Older people
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Street youth
KW  - Immortality
KW  - Dystopias
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Horror fiction
N2  - "A fresh twist on the vampire mythos, The Truants is a dystopian novel of startling intensity, narrated by immortal old-ones. Contorting the conventional vampire narrative into a startling tale of immortality, blood lust, and rage contaminating London's inner-city youth like a virus, The Truants tells the story of the last of the old-ones-creatures afflicted with a condition not unlike vampirism: ancient, bloodthirsty, and unable to withstand sunlight. The last old-one has decided to end his life, but before he can act he is held up at knifepoint. His assailant disappears, the knife in his pocket, the blood of the old-one seared into its sharpened edge. The knife trades hands, drawing blood again, and the old-one is resurrected through his victims' consciousness and divided, spreading through the infected. With his horde of infected youth, the old-one must reclaim the knife to regain control of his soul. But someone is out to stop him . . . "
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