
A terrible event leaves Sean Phillips disfigured when he is only seventeen In the weeks following the incident he creates an adventure game he calls the ' Trace Italian' where players awake in an apocalyptic America & make their way to safety across an irradiated landscape decision by difficult decision The years pass & Sean lives a quiet life enriched by his games But when a pair of teenage sweethearts try to seek the Trace in the real world their actions prove fatal & Sean is forced to confront the dangers of his creation & its origins in his own troubled past A beguiling story of contingency solitude & escape Wolf in White Van is a heart-stopping debut from a musician & songwriter known for the transcendent power of his words