Ship of the Dead

Description

"Readers who enjoyed The Strain Trilogy, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, will find plenty to satisfy them here."-San Francisco Book Review on Omega Days In the weeks following the Omega Virus outbreak, survivors form desperate clusters, uniting to defend against hordes of the walking dead. But they can only hide for so long... Father Xavier Church never wanted to be a leader. Nonetheless, he's grown attached to his fellow survivors, and he won't let anyone cause them harm-though he may be the one who inadvertently leads them to destruction... Ex-con Bill Carnes may crave freedom, but he still prefers sticking with the group rather than fleeing to Mexico with his former cellmate TC. Maybe he's changing. Or maybe the look in TC's eyes is more dangerous than the undead... EMT Rosa Escobedo gave up on hope after she watched the man she loved rise from the dead. But when a patient seems to start getting better, she can't help but hope for a cure, even if it means risking her life... As the numbers of the dead swell, the living are running out of safe havens-especially when the biggest threats lie within their own ranks.

John L. Campbell, author ofOmega Days,was born in Chicago and attended college in North Carolina and New York. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, literary magazines, and e-zines, as well as in two of the author's own collections. He lives with his family in the New York area, where he is at work on his next novel.

Praise for Omega Days "When people ask me to recommend great zombie fiction one of the names I consistently mention is John L. Campbell. Nobody writes an urban battle scene quite like he does. The pace of his storytelling will leave you breathless, and his characters are so real and so likeable you will jump up and cheer for them. Omega Days is, hands down, one of the shining stars of the zombie genre. Do yourself a favor and move this one to the top of your to-be-read pile right now. You can thank me later."-Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Savage Dead and Dead City "Characters as diverse as a priest fallen from grace, to a prisoner who finds his heart, are all in this story of terror....Campbell is good with characters...It's stories like Omega Days, with a setting in a popular city that most people have heard about, that can take an average story and make it unique."-Examiner.com "An impressively convincing vision of a world suddenly gone insane...The maelstrom that Campbell creates is a somber portrayal of the human capacity for both selfishness and, more rarely, altruism. He effectively builds a mood of terror that sweeps the reader along in this powerful example of zombie thriller genre at its best."-Publishers Weekly "A highly entertaining read with a style that grabbed me from the very first page...There are creepy echoes...of masters like Koontz and King...If you want highly entertaining, escapist, zombie fiction with plenty of action peopled by rich and interesting characters, you couldn't do better than Omega Days."-SF Revu