Premium Photo A boy looking at the bridge that reaches to the The Boy on the Bridge Portrait of a boy in a post apocalyptic setting Premium Photo A boy looking at the bridge that reaches to the. Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived. In The Boy on the Bridge, M. R. Carey returns to the world of his phenomenal USA Today and word of mouth bestseller, The Girl With All the Gifts, for the very first time.