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Swan Song

by Robert McCammon

A devastating nuclear apocalypse leaves a shattered America where a gifted young girl may be humanity’s last hope against an ancient evil.

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About Swan Song

Facing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the US government responds with a nuclear attack. Soon, America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen—from the president of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New York City—will fight to stay alive. In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, Earth’s last survivors are drawn into the final battle between good and evil, which will decide the fate of humanity: Sister, who discovers a strange and transformative glass artifact in the destroyed Manhattan streets…Joshua Hutchins, the pro wrestler who takes refuge from the nuclear fallout at a Kansas gas station...and Swan, a young girl possessing special powers, who travels alongside Josh to a Midwest town where healing and recovery can begin with her extraordinary gifts. But the ancient force behind the world’s devastation is gathering recruits for its relentless army while seeking to destroy Swan…

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  • nuclear war
  • apocalyptic destruction
  • violence
  • war
  • gun violence
  • gore
  • death
  • child death
  • animal death
  • sexual violence
  • racism/racial slurs
  • monstrous creatures
  • torture
  • body horror
  • suicide
  • pedophilia

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