The Living Dead
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves facing a dead man who won’t stay dead.
It spreads quickly. In a Midwestern trailer park, an African American teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family.
On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic preaches the gospel of a new religion of death.
At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting, not knowing if anyone is watching, while his undead colleagues try to devour him.
In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come.
Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead.
We think we know how this story ends. We. Are. Wrong.
©George A. Romero 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Customer Reviews
A Fitting Tribute
This is a long listen and a long story which requires concentration. Characters are developed as they survive and die across the decades. Their individual stories crossing paths throughout America, weaving desperation, bitter triumph, salvation and despair. There is at times, a novelty in the genre, seen from the Zombie’s perspective as they die, rise and seek flesh but also vague meaning, past memories as they too age, rot and fail.