Shamblers: the zombie apocalypse

5 STARS- "Man against man. Man against zombies. Nice twist at the end. I very much enjoyed this gritty, treacherous, unflinching view of the zompoc. I think you will too."

5 STARS- "Best read of the summer. Could not out this book down once I started reading it. Compared to all the other zombie literature this has to be one of the best ones I've read in awhile. Great choice if you want fast paced zombie thriller!"

5 STARS- "A really great story. Read it without stopping."

4 STARS- "I read it in one sitting! Very entertaining read.”

- Customer Reviews, Amazon

Betrayed by his best friend and left to die at the hands of zombies, Nick Steiner has a vendetta to settle: if he can stay alive. Being shot by Marcus Gray has given Nick sufficient reason to want revenge; for that alone Marcus deserves to die. Yet Marcus didn’t just shoot Nick: he stole Nick’s woman as well.

Nick has vowed to kill everyone and everything in his way until he gets his girl back and makes Marcus pay.

From the Author
This novel contains depictions of extreme violence, adult language, sexual references and situations, and other miscellaneous terms that may be racial and ethnically derogatory. If you are easily offended it is advised that you think twice before purchasing it. The author wants to make it known that any offensive language and situations that are contained within have been put there solely in the interest of story-telling.

I am truly excited for this zombie apocalypse novel. For starters, Shamblers has 14+ characters who get to die in awesome, creative ways (usually from zombies). It has a showdown with enemy survivors, a stunning betrayal, an intensely cruel and devious villain, a hero who has to save his woman and isn't afraid to get his hands dirty, plus a great s** scene. Shamblers mixes horror with fast-paced action and the character relationships make it much more than just a zombie-survival story.

One theme that I tried hard to imprint within Shamblers: the zombie apocalypse is a sense of hyper-realism: I don't believe in stupid characters who look behind a door knowing that their death is imminent behind it. My characters here feel believable, they are unique, and they each have their own quirks. In that sense, the characters behave in realistic ways. Often, they have to make very difficult choices that aren't necessarily black and white.

To me, Shamblers feels like a mix of the TV series The Walking Dead (of which I am a huge fan) and the Western movie, Unforgiven. The setting is Northern California, in a fictionalized version of the town of Payne's Creek and the surrounding area. It takes place after the initial zombie outbreak. I hope you enjoy it.

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EXCERPT:
"It had initially been thought that the zombie virus was an offshoot of Ebola. Many zombie-virus symptoms mimicked the terrible, hemorrhagic fever.
Ebola infection starts with a fierce head and backache. As the virus amplifies within a host, it tries to turn every living cell into a duplicate of itself. It turns a person’s skin yellow and causes red-splotches to appear throughout the skin as the victim bleeds internally. It also turns their eyes red. As it spreads, it dissolves the muscles that control facial movements: it changes a person into an expressionless zombie. It also wipes upper brain functions, which destroys an individual’s personality and leaves that person a shell of who they once were.
Ebola then turns the insides of its host into jelly: you begin to vomit black junk which is basically your dissolved liver and internal organs. The vomiting is uncontrollable and goes on and on. Your stomach fills with blood. Blood clots multiply and begin to surge through your body. You may have a heart attack or stroke. You then bleed out from every orifice. In its final stages, you shit out your intestinal linings in a rush of a**-blood.