Charlie Higson's The Enemy is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive.

When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician - every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry.

Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive.

Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground - the grown-ups lie in wait.

But can they make it there - alive?

'Higson has got the balance of blood and gore just right' Daily Mirror

'Clever...fast-paced...inventive' Guardian

Charlie Higson is the author of the bestselling Young Bond series of novels for young readers, including Silverfin and Double or Die, and the spine-tingling, teen zombie-horror series The Enemy.

Can't wait for the next instalment? This edition contains the first chapter of the mind-blowing first chapter of the second book The Dead.

Check out www.the-enemy.co.uk for more blood, more zombies and more terror.

This is book 7 in The Enemy .

There are 432 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Charlie Higson is the author of the bestselling Young Bond series, as well as a well-known writer of screenplays and adult thriller novels. He's also a performer and co-creator of The Fast Show.