The Night of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham's extraordinary bestseller, is one man's description of doomsday: almost the entire population has become blind, and the world has a new master -- the monstrous triffid plant. Simon Clark takes up the story twenty-five years later, where David Masen, the grown son of Bill, wakes one morning to discover that the world has been plunged into darkness. The few sighted people in the island community have their artificial lights, but once more the triffid has the advantage...