Armageddon's Children

Armageddon's Children is a novel by the American writer Terry Brooks, published in 2006 and the first of the trilogy he called Genesis of Shannara.

The book joins the two halves of Brooks's long career, since the ruined world it describes is a version of our own and the magic that survives in it belongs to the setting of his earlier Shannara novels, which are set much later. Logan Tom's boyhood ended when his family was killed in the collapse, and he has spent the years since as a fighter with a mission he did not choose, travelling through a poisoned American landscape looking for somebody he has never met. Angel Perez's story is the other half of the search, and it begins in the ruins of Los Angeles; the two of them are working on the same problem from opposite ends of the country.

In the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting odds, and something unspeakable has come from the shadows in search of prey. The three strands of the story are separate for most of the book and only come together through the shared purpose of the people living them. The trilogy continued with The Elves of Cintra and The Gypsy Morph.