John Brunner 
Children of the Thunder [EPUB ebook] 

Britain in the near future: the country is heading toward ecological disaster, chemical waste is seeping into people’s brains, deadly parasites contaminate food — and the despotic fascist government is trying to keep it all quiet. But there is one thing they can’t suppress — the emergence of a new master race. Children who have the power to persuade adults to do anything they want… American sociologist Claudia and reporter Peter Levin begin an investigation that brings them to a trail of genetic theories. All the children, they discover, have the same father. But who is he? And is he a force of good…or of evil?