The Night of the Triffids

A fairly good follow-up to Wyndham's original “Day of the Triffids” that started out well but went a bit over-the-top at the end. Years after the ending of the original book that left the main character Bill Masen, his partner Josella and a group of survivors taking up residence on the Isle of Wight, Bill Masen's grown son and pilot, David Masen, begins an adventure of his own after a passing cosmic dust cloud blocks out most of the sunlight, throwing the world into darkness. When David is forced to make a crash landing on a floating mass of debris, weed and triffids during a reconnaissance flight, he finds a young feral girl survivor who appears to be immune to the triffids' stings. Eventually he and the girl are picked up by a passing steamer and the story moves to America and into what appears to be a restored and thriving New York City. But the city holds a dark secret and David will eventually find out that the fanatical leader of the city is an old enemy from his father's past. After becoming romantically involved with the beautiful daughter of the city leader, David is shanghaied and taken by submarine to a settlement in the Southern region of America. There he soon falls in with a group of rebels called Foresters trying to stop the evil plans of New York City's leader. All the while the main story unfolds the triffids are continuing to mount greater threats against humanity and David and the Foresters soon find out that the triffids are rapidly mutating, creating different and more dangerous versions of the menacing plant.