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  “What did all of that mean?” Natalie asks.

  “Where was he? Isn’t Washington overrun too?” Annie says.

  “He’s in Area 51,” Keith says. “Safe in the desert with the aliens. Maybe that’s what started all this: aliens!”

  “You’re an idiot,” Danielle says without a hint of humor.

  “Okay, enough,” Kyle says. “He’s probably in NORAD, under Cheyenne Mountain, or still on Air Force One. I think they can keep that thing in the air for weeks. Anyway, that’s not important. Natalie, you asked what that meant. The way I see it, it didn’t mean anything. We were prepared to hole up here for a few weeks until Toni’s healed and can travel, and that just reinforces that’s what we need to do.”

  “Agreed,” Marc says. “We’ve got food enough to last a while, we’re safe and secure here, and I’ve brought some of my equipment so as long as the Internet stays intact, I can get us information about what’s happening in the world. In fact, I can get information for a while after the ‘net’ goes down.” He pantomimes typing to underscore his point.

  “Okay. So we need to get the perishable food put away, sort out living arrangements, job duties, et cetera,” Kyle says. “And we wait out those things out there. The zombies or whatever they are.”

  “Zeds,” Ben says.

  “What?” Andy asks.

  “Zeds. It's Canadian for ‘Z’. Zed is easier to say than zombie.”

  Kyle considers this for a second.

  “I like it,” he says. “Let’s get to it, kids. It’s Zed’s World now. We just live in it, and we have work to do.”

  About The Author

  Rich Baker traces his love of zombies back to the Dan O’Bannon movie Return of the Living Dead, which was his first introduction to the genre. He was hooked, devouring any movies or books he could get his hands on. Reality and a well-paying day job kept his passion for writing at bay until he met and spoke with a few writers who were writing apocalyptic zombie fiction, and he put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard, as it were).

  Writing Zed’s World has been a fulfillment of a lifelong dream for Rich, and the feedback and customer reviews have been inspiring. Rich set out to write a story that he, himself, would want to read, and finding that others want to go along on this ride is a humbling thing. Thank you, each and every one of you, for investing your time and treasure in this universe he’s created. It’s Zed’s World: we just live in it.

  Zed’s World will return soon with another installment, due out in late 2016.

  SIXTH CYCLE

  Nuclear war has destroyed human civilization.

  Captain Jake Phillips wakes into a dangerous new world, where he finds the remaining fragments of the population living in a series of strongholds, connected across the country. Uneasy alliances have maintained their safety, but things are about to change. — Discovery leads to danger. — Skye Reed, a tracker from the Omega stronghold, uncovers a threat that could spell the end for their fragile society. With friends and enemies revealing truths about the past, she will need to decide who to trust. — Sixth Cycle is a gritty post-apocalyptic story of survival and adventure.

  Darren Wearmouth ~ Carl Sinclair

  DEAD ISLAND: Operation Zulu

  Ten years after the world was nearly brought to its knees by a zombie Armageddon, there is a race for the antidote! On a remote Caribbean island, surrounded by a horde of hungry living dead, a team of American and Australian commandos must rescue the Antidotes' scientist. Filled with zombies, guns, Russian bad guys, shady government types, serial killers and elevator muzak. Dead Island is an action packed blood soaked horror adventure.

  Allen Gamboa

  INVASION OF THE DEAD SERIES

  This is the first book in a series of nine, about an ordinary bunch of friends, and their plight to survive an apocalypse in Australia. — Deep beneath defense headquarters in the Australian Capital Territory, the last ranking Army chief and a brilliant scientist struggle with answers to the collapse of the world, and the aftermath of an unprecedented virus. Is it a natural mutation, or does the infection contain — more sinister roots? — One hundred and fifty miles away, five friends returning from a month-long camping trip slowly discover that death has swept through the country. What greets them in a gradual revelation is an enemy beyond compare. — Armed with dwindling ammunition, the friends must overcome their disagreements, utilize their individual skills, and face unimaginable horrors as they battle to reach their hometown…

  Owen Ballie

  Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

  Alone in a foreign land. The radio goes quiet while on convoy in Afghanistan, a lost patrol alone in the desert. With his unit and his home base destroyed, Staff Sergeant Brad Thompson suddenly finds himself isolated and in command of a small group of men trying to survive in the Afghan wasteland. Every turn leads to danger.

  The local population has been afflicted with an illness that turns them into rabid animals. They pursue him and his men at every corner and stop. Struggling to hold his team together and unite survivors, he must fight and evade his way to safety. A fast paced zombie war story like no other.

  W.J. Lundy

  ZOMBIE RUSH

  New to the Hot Springs PD Lisa Reynolds was not all that welcomed by her coworkers especially those who were passed over for the position. It didn’t matter, her thirty days probation ended on the same day of the Z-poc’s arrival. Overnight the world goes from bad to worse as thousands die in the initial onslaught. National Guard and regular military unit deployed the day before to the north leaves the city in mayhem. All directions lead to death until one unlikely candidate steps forward with a plan. A plan that became an avalanche raging down the mountain culminating in the salvation or destruction of them all.

  Joseph Hansen

  THE ALPHA PLAGUE

  Rhys is an average guy who works an average job in Summit City—a purpose built government complex on the outskirts of London. The Alpha Tower stands in the centre of the city. An enigma, nobody knows what happens behind its dark glass. Rhys is about to find out. At ground zero and with chaos spilling out into the street, Rhys has the slightest of head starts. If he can remain ahead of the pandemonium, then maybe he can get to his loved ones before the plague does. The Alpha Plague is a post-apocalyptic survival thriller.

  Michael Robertson

  THE FORGOTTEN LAND

  Sergeant Steve Golburn, an Australian Special Air Service veteran, is tasked with a dangerous mission in Iraq, deep behind enemy lines. When Steve’s five man SAS patrol inadvertently spark a time portal, they find themselves in 10th century Viking Denmark. A place far more dangerous and lawless than modern Iraq. Join the SAS patrol on this action adventure into the depths of not only a hostile land, far away from the support of the Allied front line, but into another world…another time.

  Keith McArdle

  Table of Contents

  Prologue: It’s The End of the World as We Know It …

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  About The Author