Zombie Apokalypse

This is a 'mosaic novel' set in the near-future, when a desperate andever-more controlling UK government decides to restore a sense of nationalpride with a New Festival of Britain. However, controversial plans to buildon the site of an old church in South London releases a centuries-oldplague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite orscratch passes the contagion on to others. Even worse, the virus may alsohave a supernatural origin with the power to revive the dead. Despite theattempts of the police, the military and those in power to understand andcontain the infection commonly referred to as 'The Death', it soon sweepsacross London, transforming everyone who comes into contact with it. Withthe city - and the country - falling into chaos, even a drastic attempt ata 'Final Solution' to eradicate the outbreak at its source fails to preventit from spreading to Europe and then quickly throughout the rest of theworld. Soon there is no more news coming out of Britain ...and it is up tothose survivors in other countries to confront the flesh-eating invaderswithin their midst. Will humanity triumph over a world-wide zombie plague,or will the walking dead ultimately inherit the Earth? Told through variousdisparate and overlapping eye-witness accounts, through texts, e-mails,blogs, letters, diaries, transcripts, official reports and other forms ofcommunication, a picture builds up of a world plunged into chaos - wherethe dead attack the living, and only one of them can be the ultimatevictor. Written by some of the biggest and best-known names in horror andscience fiction, these interconnected narratives create a unique vision ofthe End of the World brought about by a plague that may have its origins inboth science and the occult. Praise for Stephen Jones: 'Horror's lastmaverick' - Christopher Fowler. 'Stephen Jones ...has a better sense of thegenre than almost anyone in this country' - Lisa Tuttle, "The Times Books".'The best horror anthologist in the business is, of course, Stephen Jones'- Roz Kavaney, "Time Out". 'Edited by Stephen Jones, a member of that tinyband of anthologists whose work is so reliably good that you automaticallyreach out and grab hold of any new volume spotted if you are wise' - GahanWilson, "Realms of Fantasy". 'One of the genre's most enthusiasticcheerleaders' - "Publishers Weekly".