Death of Grass by John Cristopher is another apocalyptic novel written 60 years ago. A viral strain has attacked rice crops in East Asia causing massive famine; soon a mutation appears which infects the staple crops of West Asia and Europe such as wheat and barley, threatening a famine engulfing the whole of the Old World, while Australasia and the Americas attempt to impose rigorous quarantine to exclude the virus. The novel itself follows John Custanae and his friend Roger Buckley along with their familes as they cross England that his falling rapidly into anarchy. They hope to arrive to a Farm in a isolated valley. Along the way they join forces with Pirrie a gun shop owner. This book is all about sacrifices as they change from normal beings to beings that must change their morals to survive. In one point they kill a family to steal their bread as they justify as "it was them or us". The ending was quite good. I would adive to anoyone who likes apocalpytic fiction but also a book about psycological changes under stress and under some situations. It's a classic. 9/10
