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TheOutlaws
London still stands behind the walls. Two other cities do too. And what Mike Knight just discovered could break the peace between them.
★ 4.9 on Amazon UK4.14 on Goodreads
Chapter one
The story
London, 2100. The oil wars finished what the floods started. Three walled cities are all that survived. Inside them, life is rationed but ordered. Roles are assigned at Induction, Guards patrol the bridges, the King sits on the throne and the world outside the walls is somebody else’s problem.
Johnny Knight has just qualified for the Guard. His younger brother Mike has just made a discovery that should not be possible. By the time Johnny works out who knows about it, half the people he trusted are already lying to him, and the Outlaw King is already coming for them both.
The Outlaws is the first book in a trilogy about friendship, sacrifice, and the choices that turn a kid from the City into something more dangerous than the people hunting him.
Now
Why now
The Outlaws was written in 2023 and published in 2024, before energy security became the conversation it is now and before the fragmentation of the global order made the idea of three surviving cities sound less like science fiction. The trilogy isn’t a prediction. It’s an extrapolation of pressures that were already in the room.
Reader reviews
What readers are saying
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“A YA debut with real weight. Reminded me of Red Rising and the early Hunger Games books.”Goodreads reviewer
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“Read it in one sitting. The ending made me want book two immediately.”Amazon reviewer
The author
Emory Faith
Emory Faith writes YA action thrillers set in the near future. The Outlaws is his debut novel and the first book in a planned trilogy.
He lives in London, a city that features heavily in his imagination of what comes next.
2100Year the story is set
Book 1 of 3The Outlaws trilogy
2024Published by Troubador