- Mad Max for kids -

Somewhere in the 21st Century a conflict escalates into a global thermonuclear war, which destroys the Earth's surface and exterminates 60% of humanity.

The After the Light series is set one hundred years after the war and tells the adventures of Boran, a young boy who travels with his mother in an old truck through the barren wastelands and ruined cities of what once was Europe. The books offer a series of exciting and spectacular adventures aimed at young teens. The stakes are high and the main characters often have to fend for their lives, but the stories also carry an important and very powerful message: always and everywhere real friendship will prevail.

Part I was awarded the Prize of the Flemish Youth Jury in 2005 (www.kjv.be) and was featured as Book of the Month in 2003 on the popular KidCity website (www.kidcity.be).

For its fifth anniversary, the first book got a brand new reworked edition.

	After the Light I: The Cyclops Eleven year-old Boran travels around with his mother in an old Sania truck, looking for water and basically trying to survive. When Boran’s mother gets her hands on an ancient map showing the way to a mythical desalinization plant, it seems that salvation is near. But Boran and his mother are ambushed by the brutal marauder gang of The Cyclops. Boran’s mother is taken prisoner and the wounded boy is left to die in the desert. However, Boran is saved by Mattia, a thirteen year-old vagrant boy on a jet bike. They become friends and together they go in search for Boran’s mother and the legendary desalinization plant that would put an end to the water shortage.
		Award of the Flemish Youth Jury 2005
	After the Light II: The New Conquerors After the Light II picks up eleven months after the end of book I. Boran and his friends have found the legendary desalinization plant of Western End. This means the end of water shortage and the start of a new life, where children can grow up in peace and safety. Mattia however isn’t happy in Western End. He has been drifting all his life and feels like a prisoner behind the high walls that protect the prosperous city. Boran tries everything to change Mattia’s mind, but one night he’s gone. Boran goes looking for his bloodbrother and discovers that Mattia went aboard an ancient luxury cruiser with a band of rag-tag adventurers who want to look for the legendary continent Oceania which, according to the rumours, has been left unaffected by the war and the climate changes. The adventure will take the boys on an incredible journey across half the globe, towards an unknown destiny...
	After the Light III: Children of the Eagle The concluding book of the trilogy picks up where the second book ended. Boran, Mattia and their friends cross the North-American continent to the West looking for the mysterious Bird Man who might be able to bring them to Oceania. On their journey they have to deal with vicious marauder gangs, religious extremists and the ever present Dark Creatures, man-eating mutants who inhabit the dark corners and ruins of the world. But Boran and his friends also discover that nature is slowly recovering from the war and when they meet a tribe of Mojave natives who are reliving the glory days of their ancestors, they’re no longer sure if Oceania is the right place to go or even wether the legend is true.

The foreign rights of the After the Light Trilogy are available through the Allied Authors Agency (www.alliedauthorsagency.be). To obtain a proposal in English as well as a German proof translation of part I, send an e-mail to info@alliedauthorsagency.be.