Taronga: Victor Kelleher

An Australian post-nuclear war novel. Two years after the Last Day, Australia has become a dangerous place, a battleground for survival. Ben, who has the telepathic ability to control animals, is living in the bush of the Blue Mountains. Hoping for a kinder existence he makes for Sydney, only to be further disillusioned. Then he finds Taronga Zoo, strangely unaffected by the chaos. Or - has it?