Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50716 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 288 pages

Synopsis
Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star State is reeling from the worst devastation in history. Thousands are dead or dying - but the worst is only beginning. Amid the wreckage, something unimaginable is happening: a deadly virus has broken out, returning the dead to life - with an insatiable hunger for human flesh...Within hours, the plague has spread all over Texas. San Antonio police officer Eddie Hudson finds his city overrun by a voracious army of the living dead. Along with a small group of survivors, Eddie must fight off the savage horde in a race to save his family...There's no place to run. No place to hide. The Zombie horde is growing as the virus runs rampant. Eddie knows he has to find a way to destroy these walking horrors...but he doesn't know the price he will have to pay.

Customer Reviews

Zombie writing
This novel is not partiularly bad, but lets just say it's not particularly great. It shambles along aimlessly...sort of like a zombie.

Fairly typical zombie uprising
Although I enjoyed this book and I think it's well written, it's not very original and that's why it only gets 4 stars. The story consists of a police officer making his way through San Antonio via various encounters with zombies along the way in an attempt to reach his family. The zombies are the classic dim-witted slow dead people type zombies, allowing the hero to take on hordes of them by himself or with small groups of survivors that he encounters along the way.

None of this is a bad thing as there is enough action to keep the story going. Some of the scenes are a little unrealistic, but then how realistic is a zombie pandemic anyway? I personally found the ending refreshing, even if it isn't particularly logical.

A cop on the run
This is a fast paced tale of a cops journey to find his family after the zombies rise, he travels with different people throughout the story which is a good addition to the overall effect.
There are plenty of zombie attack scenes, some i must admit are a little too far fetched but on the whole a cracking read with the only big disappointment being the "too happy" an ending.
Not the best in the genre but above average and well worth a go.