DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME? In the seventeen days since it happened, Maxwell has rarely needed to leave his home. In the last fourteen days, in fact, he hasn’t had to go outside at all. He’s what people used to call a ‘Prepper’: someone who planned for the worst, because they knew it was going to happen someday. And Maxwell was right. All the effort he put into stockpiling and planning his survival before the event has definitely paid off now. The fact he’s alive was all down to chance at the end of the day, though he doesn’t know that. Or if he does, he doesn’t care. Maxwell is convinced the reason he’s still here after millions of others were wiped out is because he knows what he’s doing. In a world where all reason appears to have gone out of the window, it’s hard to argue with his

