The
end of the world begins at 30,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean,
hundreds of miles from land. A military aircraft en route to Denver,
loaded with deceased American soldiers, disappears into an aberrant
mass of storm clouds that appear almost out of nowhere. The pilots
are startled by a sudden commotion in the cargo bay, where the air
trays are kept. What they find stuns them all: the dead moving, alive
and angry and hungry for human flesh--this is the first reported incident.
Days
pass. The bodies of the recently deceased return to life, first near
landmasses near the ocean, then elsewhere. They cannot be killed
in any practical way, only incapacitated by dismemberment or
blinding. Medical and military facilities around the globe work
together in order to solve this baffling, unparalleled mystery. What
they discover is maddening. These zombies are ingrained with a
malignant root system, put there by some unknown and sinister force
which is controlling them remotely.
The
fate of the world rests with a small, unassuming group of people
looking to find refuge from the dead and hopefully survive
Armageddon. It's Maynard Dunn, a family man and ex-marine, who will
lead them: Peter, an unrenowned psychic; Andrew, a brilliant
scientist and biologist; Tony, a reckless teenage boy with homicidal
tendencies; Faith, a suicidal and agoraphobic young woman; and Don,
an old geezer with dementia who can hear the voice of pure evil.
This
is Book 1 in a series of three, titled Puppeteer of the Dead: The
Living Dead. Book 2, which I haven't started yet, will deal with the
internal corruption among the remaining survivors; and three, the
malign force behind the zombies themselves.
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