Fall of Night
A Zombie Novel
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4.4 • 72 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Stebbins Little School is full of bodies. It's unthinkable to Desdemona Fox. Children are sobbing as panicked teachers and neighbors beat down their family members outside of the school...or the things that used to be their family members. Parents don't eat their children do they?
Officers Fox and Hammond, along with journalist Billy Trout, are calling it the beginning of the end. This is the zombie apocalypse. An insane escaped serial killer is infecting Stebbins County with a deadly virus, and now the whole world is watching while Fox, Trout, and the remaining inhabitants of Stebbins fight for their life against...what? The undead? The President and the National Guard are ready to nuke Stebbins, PA off the map and cut their losses. But the infection is spreading and fast. Worse, the scientist who created the virus is missing. It's a numbers game as the body count rises; Fox has to contain the infected and evacuate the living before it's too late, and the clock is ticking...
Fall of Night, Maberry's nail-biting sequel to Dead of Night, picks up where the first novel left off—on a wild goose chase for a madman and the missing scientist who gave him new "un"-life. Chilling, gory, and hair-raisingly scary, Maberry fans won't be able to read this fast-paced thriller with the lights off.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Maberry continues his zombie apocalypse series with this harrowing, gory adventure, which picks up immediately after the events of 2011's Dead of Night. Caught at the epicenter of a viral outbreak that turns humans into shambling monsters, police officer Dez Fox and reporter Billy Trout must try to keep hundreds of survivors alive. Mishandling by the military and the government allows undead serial killer Homer Gibbon, originator of the plague, to slip through this quarantine and doom humanity. While the depiction of the collapse of society is textbook and the condemnation of the government unsubtle, Maberry excels at humanizing the plague's victims, both living and dead. Naturally, readers shouldn't get too attached to any specific character. Overlapping characters explicitly connect the story to Maberry's Joe Ledger books and anticipate his Rot & Ruin YA series, proving that while the immediate outcome is bleak, there's still hope for the future. Messy, tense, and highly atmospheric, this is a perfect example of zombie action.
Customer Reviews
So good, great sequel... more please!
More, more, more please. Love the main character... I want to continue to follow her story!
New take, must read
Great new take on the outbreak story! Kept you hooked and reading! Couldn't put it down and can't wait for the nest! Please hurry Mr. Mayberry, write, write, write!