

Lotz is a ferociously imaginative storyteller whose twisty plots will kick the stairs out from under you. The Three are forced to go into hiding, but as the children's behaviour becomes increasingly disturbing, even their guardians begin to question their miraculous survival. This attention becomes more than just intrusive when a rapture cult led by a charismatic evangelical minister insists that the survivors are three of the four harbingers of the apocalypse. Dubbed 'The Three' by the international press, the children all exhibit disturbing behavioural problems, presumably caused by the horror they lived through and the unrelenting press attention.

With terrorist attacks and environmental factors ruled out, there doesn't appear to be a correlation between the crashes, except that in three of the four air disasters a child survivor is found in the wreckage. Facing global panic, officials are under pressure to find the causes. What if he's right? The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse.
