Apocalypse of the Dead, Joe McKinney
Apocalypse of the Dead, Joe McKinney
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Apocalypse of the Dead

Author: Joe McKinney

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 15 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/25/2011


Synopsis

And the dead shall rise...

Two hellish years. That's how long it's been since the hurricanes flooded the Gulf Coast, and the dead rose up from the ruins. The cities were quarantined; the infected, contained. Any unlucky survivors were left to fend for themselves. A feast for the dead.

And the living shall gather...

One boatload of refugees manages to make it out alive—but one passenger carries the virus. Within weeks, the zombie epidemic spreads across the globe. Now, retired U.S. Marshal Ed Moore must lead a group of strangers to safety, searching for sanctuary from the dead. A last chance for the living.

Let the battle begin.

In the North Dakota grasslands, bands of survivors converge upon a single outpost. Run by a self-appointed preacher of fierce conviction—and frightening beliefs—it may be humanity's only hope. But Ed Moore and the others refuse to enter a suicide pact. They'd rather stand and fight in the final battle against the zombies. An apocalypse of the dead.

About Joe McKinney

Joe McKinney is the author of numerous horror, crime, and science fiction novels, including Quarantined, Dodging Bullets, and the four-part Dead World series, which consists of Dead City, Apocalypse of the Dead, Flesh Eaters, and Mutated. He has a master's degree in English literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and he has worked as a homicide detective and a disaster mitigation specialist for the San Antonio Police Department. Joe lives north of San Antonio with his wife and children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Patrick on January 30, 2011

Apocalypse of the Dead is technically a sequel to Dead City, Joe McKinney's story about the initial night of outbreak as the dead take over San Antonio and one police officer must fight to survive his night in hell. This novel actually takes place two years after Dead City, and the main character in......more

Goodreads review by Craig on March 29, 2020

This is a fun zombie novel, nothing really great or too memorable, but a good pandemic page-turner. The first Dead World book had only one character whose viewpoint we stayed with quite strictly, but this one has lots and lots of them, a few too many at times, so that it's sometimes a little difficu......more

Goodreads review by Scott on January 19, 2011

In all honesty, I'd had enough of zombie books. The ones that did it right were awesome. The ones that didn't were dismal. I really didn't think I'd find another Z-book to up the ante at all. But then came Apocalypse of the Dead by Joe McKinney. All I can say is that McKinney has, once again, raised......more

Goodreads review by John on October 03, 2011

Much, much better than the first novel...I wasnt even going to give this one a shot after the first one but Im glad I did. Its like Mckinney is a completely different author here and he is definitely channeling some Stephen King's The Stand here and in a good way. All the characters and their indivi......more

Goodreads review by Charles Dee on April 04, 2012

Two years after the outbreak of zombification chronicled in McKinney's first novel Dead City, things, as you might expect, are not turning out well. A containment wall around Houston and other intensely infected regions contains not only the infected but those survivors who have been trapped inside......more