Age Group: 9 - 12 Years, 12+ Years

Description:

Fourteen-year-old Will Burrows is an outcast at school and a loner at home, where his TV-glued mother, eccentric archaeologist father, and unflappable younger sister make for a strangely dysfunctional family. The one passion Will shares with his dad is digging — until his father vanishes without warning down an unknown tunnel beneath London. Determined to find him, Will and his loyal friend Chester begin to excavate, uncovering a hidden subterranean civilisation called The Colony, sealed off from the surface for over a century and ruled by the merciless, cult-like Styx. Now trapped in a dark world that despises 'Topsoilers,' the boys must survive long enough to find Will's father — and a way out.