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Dan Salmon.
496 pages.
New Zealand author.
Summary: What if evolution got it wrong and the human race was threatened at the very core of its DNA? Fourteen-year-old Charlie is living in a time when a strange virus is affecting sections of the homosapien race. They are becoming more hostile, more aggressive. It seems there is a throwback to the Neand gene that is being transmitted by a virus and altering people's DNA. As his parents, schoolmates, friends and authority figures succumb to the virus or disappear, Charlie and his friends undertake a dangerous journey to find some answers.