The knife of never letting go : Chaos Walking Series, Book 1

A Dystopian Thriller Follows A Boy And Girl On The Run From A Town Where All Thoughts Can Be Heard – And The Passage To Manhood Embodies A Horrible Secret. Todd Hewitt Is The Only Boy In A Town Of Men. Ever Since The Settlers Were Infected With The Noise Germ, Todd Can Hear Everything The Men Think, And They Hear Everything He Thinks. Todd Is Just A Month Away From Becoming A Man, But In The Midst Of The Cacophony, He Knows That The Town Is Hiding Something From Him -- Something So Awful Todd Is Forced To Flee With Only His Dog, Whose Simple, Loyal Voice He Hears Too. With Hostile Men From The Town In Pursuit, The Two Stumble Upon A Strange And Eerily Silent Creature: A Girl. Who Is She? Why Wasn't She Killed By The Germ Like All The Females On New World? Propelled By Todd's Gritty Narration, Readers Are In For A White-knuckle Journey In Which A Boy On The Cusp Of Manhood Must Unlearn Everything He Knows In Order To Figure Out Who He Truly Is. Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him--something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is. Includes "The New World," a short story by Patrick Ness An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run... Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about this space colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World