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''THE STAND meets THE ROAD'' Entertainment Weekly

''Enthralling ... richly imagined. Above all, Amy is a superb creation, believably human yet beguilingly enigmatic'' Sunday Times

Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she''s the most important person in the whole world.

She is.

Anthony Carter doesn''t think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row.

He''s wrong.

FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming.

It is.

''Read 15 pages, and you will find yourself captivated; read 30 and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night. It had the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve. What else can I say? This: read this book and the ordinary world disappears'' Stephen King