High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tunnels is a subterranean fiction novel by British authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams released by Chicken House in 2007. The story follows Will Burrows, a 14-year-old archaeologist, who stumbles upon an underground civilization called The Colony. Will and friend Chester flee The Colony and set out to find Will`s father in the Deeps, a place even deeper in the earth than The Colony.