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He lives in California with his wife, Katherine Applegate, and their two children.

His fondest dream is to spend a year circumnavigating the globe and visiting every continent. Even as an adult he kept moving, and in fact he became a writer in part because it was one of the few jobs that wouldn't tie him down. Raised in a military family, he attended ten schools in five states, as well as three schools in France. He has co-authored over 160 books but promises that everything he writes is like nothing you’ve ever read before! If the Gone series has left you hungry for more from the dark genius of YA fiction, look out for the BZRK trilogy: BZRK, BZRK Reloaded, BZRK Apocalypse and the terrifying Messenger of Fear and its sequel The Tattooed Heart. Michael is a World Book Day author for 2017.ģ in the series that Stephen King calls a ‘driving, torrential narrative’.Ībout the Author: Michael Grant, author of Messenger of Fear, the Gone series, and the Magnificent Twelve series, has spent much of his life on the move. He moved in with his wife Katherine Applegate after only 24 hours. Michael Grant has lived an exciting, fast-paced life. Michael Grant also has a World Book Day book, Dead of Night, which is set in the Front Lines universe and written exclusively for World Book Day 2017. If you love GONE, be sure not to miss Michael's new series Front Lines – it's WWII but not as you know it! The first book is Front Lines, followed by Silver Stars. ‘I am now free to leave the FAYZ, but my time there was well spent’ Stephen King Have you got all 6 titles in the New York Times bestselling saga: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, and Light? Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner.

In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century.

As life in the FAYZ becomes more desperate, no one knows who they can trust. It happens in one night: a girl who died now walks among the living, Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach, and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most. Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 3 in the series that Stephen King calls a ‘driving, torrential narrative’.

Lies book by michael grant