GRANT, Michael - Gone - (Excellent Paperback)

This book actually looks brand new to me.     >>>   The series is centered on the fictional Southern Californian town of Perdido Beach, in which every human aged 15 and older vanishes. The town and surrounding areas become encased within an impenetrable energy barrier, with many of its inhabitants developing  powers. The books follow the exploits of the , Sam Temple, as he battles  Caine Soren and Drake Merwin, as well as a mysterious, malevolent creature, known as the Darkness or the gaiaphage (derived from , a Greek personification of the Earth, and "phage", from the Greek ¿ phagein "to devour").  The first novel in this series, titled Gone, was originally published in 2008.