#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Prepare to be entranced by this
addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and
zombies."--Entertainment Weekly
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted
by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead,
but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men
and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only
record of the pandemic.
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max
Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand
experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of
America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed
with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable
areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and
sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least
the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result.
Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys
the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of
resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
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"Will spook you for real."--The New York Times Book Review**
"Possesses more creativity and zip than entire crates of other new
fiction titles. Think Mad Max meets The Hot Zone. . . . It's
Apocalypse Now, pandemic-style. Creepy but fascinating."--USA
Today
"Will grab you as tightly as a dead man's fist. A."--Entertainment
Weekly, EW Pick
"Probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles's War
of the Worlds radio broadcast . . . This is action-packed
social-political satire with a global view."--Dallas Morning News
