Zone One

Audiobook

English language

Published Oct. 18, 2011 by Random House Audio.

ISBN:
978-0-307-94093-3
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Audible ASIN:
B005R4GWWE
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n this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.

Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild­ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern­ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street - aka Zone One - but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety - the “malfunctioning” stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives.

Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work­ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz’s desperate fight for survival during the worst of …

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Subjects

  • Zombies
  • Virus diseases
  • Fiction
  • New York Times bestseller
  • nyt:hardcover_fiction=2011-10-29
  • Survival
  • Viruses
  • Fiction, horror
  • New york (n.y.), fiction
  • New York Times reviewed

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