Nerve gases (also known as nerve agents) are a class of chemical weapons. During Day 5, the terrorist group known as the Dawn Brigade (led by Vladimir Bierko) used a stolen nerve gas called Sentox to threaten America.
the number of words in a novel will vary depending on the genre a young adult novel will run between 20000 and 40000 words that would be the length of a novella in mainstream fiction many genres seem to have succumbed to supersizing a mass market western mystery or sf novel used to run to 60000 70000 words
This averages to about 22 to 23 chapters per novel, with the average chapter length around 4,280 words. For information on word counts in the entire Harry Potter Series, Twilight Saga, and The Hunger Games trilogy, grab a copy of my free e-book: