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The FAYZ stands for Fallout Alley Youth Zone. The term is a sort of mordant joke at first, but quickly becomes the accepted term for the trap that imprisons the kids of Perdido Beach. Everyone over the age of 14 has simply disappeared. There's no way into the FAYZ, and death is the only escape. And yet death may actually be preferable to the strange, dangerous, terrifying world of the FAYZ.
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It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ. Three months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.
Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers.
Tension rises and chaos is descending upon the town. It's the normal kids against the mutants. Each kid is out for himself, and even the good ones turn murderous
But a larger problem looms. The Darkness, a sinister creature that has lived buried deep in the hills, begins calling to some of the teens in the FAYZ. Calling to them, guiding them, manipulating them.
The Darkness has awakened. And it is hungry.
"I've been reading the GONE books—the first and HUNGER, the follow-up. These are exciting, high-tension stories told in a driving, torrential narrative that never lets up. There are monsters, there are kids with mad-crazy super powers, there's the mystery of where all the adults went. Most of all, there are children I can believe in and root for. This is great fiction. I love these books."
—Stephen King
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Except for the young. Teens. Middle Schoolers. Toddlers. But not a single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. And just as suddenly there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to figure out what's happened. And no way to get help.
Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day.
It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your 15th birthday, you will disappear just like everyone else.
"Extraordinarily skillful pacing, which leaves the reader constantly on the verge of a new discovery."
—KLIATT
"A tour de force that will leave readers dazed, disturbed, and utterly breathless."
—Booklist (starred review)
"If Stephen King had written Lord of the Flies, it might have been a little like this novel."
—VOYA (starred review)
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