Three weeks ago, Daddy left town with the other volunteer firefighters to fight the fires in the city, and Tom and Mother have looked after the farm.
But the end of the world has come. Radios, phones and TV broadcasts have fallen silent, trains have stopped coming and the main road has remained empty.
When Tom finds a large metal egg on the farm, and a metal-spiked echidna hatches from it, the neighbour Mr McGregor wants to kill it. Whatever has silenced the rest of the world is creeping into town. Roads start talking and zombies come into town, wanting to tell everyone how they died. People must fight back.
But Tom thinks differently. The echidna, which he names Thing, is a true friend. Thing protects Tom from the greedy roads, the evil zombie kids and even Mr McGregor.
To find Daddy, Tom needs to follow a map he has found in a vagrant camp site, a map which leads him straight to the place where all the trouble started.
Survival
Supernatural
Mystery
Postapocalyptic
Journey
Family
Magic
Chosenone
Coming of Age
Dystopian
Folklore
Audiobook details
GenreHorror
Length3 hrs 11 mins
Publish dateSep 29, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
11Chapter 10
2Chapter 1
12Chapter 11
3Chapter 2
13Chapter 12
4Chapter 3
14Chapter 13
5Chapter 4
15Chapter 14
6Chapter 5
16Chapter 15
7Chapter 6
17Chapter 16
8Chapter 7
18Chapter 17
9Chapter 8
19Chapter 18
10Chapter 9
20Outro
About the author
Patty Jansen
Science Fiction and Fantasy including the bestselling Ambassador series and the Icefire trilogies. More than 60 books published, all of them available in audio.View all audiobooks by Patty Jansen
