The Enemy Is Real

       In "The Enemy" by Charlie Higson, the first 15 pages have had a lot of action.  The book started off in a post Apoplectic London after an outbreak turned any person above the age of 16 into zombies.  Small Sam was playing oust side with some other young children without a guard.  3 zombies flanked Sam and stuffed him into a sack and carried him away over the wall before any other children could arrive to help.  It is a dangerous adult zombie infested world where strong zombies are slow, smart zombies are weak and fast zombies are stupid. 

       Arran is the leader of a group of over 20 kids trying to survive and a girl named Maxie is his second in command.  Every person in their group has different skills and are all different ages.  By the time Maxie and her group arrived to Small Sam he was already gone, they were to late.  Maxie is now mad at herself that they couldn't do anything to save him.  Josh and Callum comforted Maxie as she began to cry, she knew it was all her fault that another kid was taken.

       Arran was out leading a scavenger party to find food and supplies to bring back to camp.  Before the world became infested with zombies Arran was the captain of his soccer team and now leads a survival group.  In his scavenger group is Freak and Deak, they were best friends and a team.  Freak and Deke never go anywhere without each other.  Arran was the leader of the group but Achilleus was the best fighter and has saved them countless times.  Finally there was Ollie who was small but the cleverest of them all.

     As they are walking down the street they here howling of a pack of dogs.  They take defensive stances with Achilleus in the front with a spear, Freak had an axe and Deke has a sledgehammer.  Soon a pack of many dogs stood 20 feet away from them and started barking.  Arran and the group started making racket to scare some off.  But the brave dogs stayed and inched closer but Ollie used his slingshot shoot a metal ball into the leader killing it.  Achilleus took down a German Shepard and the rest of the pack ran away.  They took the leader and carried it back to camp to cook for food, lately the children were very hungry.