From bestselling author Peter Heller, a riveting, powerful novel about a pilot who survives a ruined world only to risk everything to rediscover, against all odds, the capacity for love and hope. Soon to be a major motion picture from Ridley Scott, starring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, and Josh Brolin.
Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog. His only neighbor, Bangley, is a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows the trail of the static-broken voice. But what he encounters and what he must face is both better and worse than anything he could have hoped for.