Product Description

In less than twenty-four hours a vicious and virulent disease destroys virtually all of the population. Billions are killed. Thousands die every second.

There are no symptoms and no warnings. Within moments of infection each victim suffers a violent and agonizing death. Only a handful of survivors remain. By the end of the first day those survivors wish they were dead.

Then the disease strikes again, and all hell breaks loose...

The classic free underground novel finally bursts into the mainstream. Cold, dark, relentless and uncomfortably plausible. A Night of the Living Dead for the 21st Century.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #283321 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From the Inside Flap
In less than twenty-four hours a vicious and virulent disease destroys virtually all of the population. Billions are killed. Thousands die every second.

There are no symptoms and no warnings. Within moments of infection each victim suffers a violent and agonizing death. Only a handful of survivors remain. By the end of the first day those survivors wish they were dead.

Then the disease strikes again, and all hell breaks loose...

About the Author
David Moody is the author of the acclaimed AUTUMN living dead novels. A writer sick of square-jawed, all-American heroes and contrived happy endings, his books are unique and individual. Tried and tested horror and science-fiction themes are twisted and given a fresh perspective by this British author. Moody's characters are ordinary people - you, me, the man or woman next door or across the street - forced to survive the most extraordinary of conditions. It is this uneasy mixture of the familiar and bizarre that makes his stories such unsettling and disturbing reads.

Customer Reviews

Hmmmm
As an avid reader of the horror genre i found this book extremely amateurly written, his constant use of swearing used in the dialogue of characters seemed to be used just for the sake of swearing! The story in general felt very jumpy with detail about the general environment rather lacking, i also felt that he had rather a small vocabulary as while reading i occassionally came across the same discriptive words used 3 times in one paragraph.

All in all a rather disappointing read

Sorry, but...
I'm a great fan of the zombie genre so I was really looking forward to this. However I found it to be the one thing that a zombie novel shouldn't be able to be...dull.
Everything was just so laid back. There was no sense of urgency or menace. The descriptions were there but I just didn't feel it. The characters were paper thin and it was impossible to empathise with them. The decisions they made were wildly irrational with no attempt made by the author to justify them.
Sorry. Really wanted to like this but it just has too many weak points.
I haven't tried the sequels, so there may be an improvement, but based on this offering I wouldn't bother. Go for the Walking Dead series by Robert Kirkman or The Mammoth Book of Zombies if you can get it. Terrible title but actually an excellent collection of interesting zombie related short stories.

Mediocre
This book is good in places, but I found it pretty slow and too much emphasis on character emotions, it just seemed to really slow down the pace of the the book. Also, not alot happens in it, apart from alot of people crying.