The fifth message. Payk Ch.

2203. The earth is burned out by sun flashes, the cities lie in ruins. Due to the change in the climate in the air, there is unbearable heat, acid rains corrode all living things. Many years ago, people sent a signal for help into space. Since then, four messages with hints for the elect, how to survive, have already come to Earth. In the fifth, and the last, it should be said about the place and time of salvation. But no one knows where and when it will be received.

The surviving people live in colonies protected from the outside world. A young man named Leon trained his whole life to prove that he is worthy to become chosen. But for this you will have to kill. Together with the assistant Marta, they haunt the victim in poisoned lands. Soon Leon begins to doubt the correctness of the act, but there is no way back. Will they be able to survive in this dangerous test, and most importantly-to find the fifth message?

“The Fifth Message” (2019) is the debut book of the Irish writer Charlie Pike, the English teacher, a journalist, a graduate of Trinity College.