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Brian Keene: Dead Sea

lenny nero

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Here's another horror book I'm looking forward to next month. Looks like Keene's returning to what he does best, zombie horror. The Rising and City of the Dead were both gut munching fun.
From Publishers Weekly
With another bleak vision of the zombie apocalypse, Keene makes a triumphant return to the still-thriving subgenre he helped revive with his 2004 debut The Rising (a movie version of which is currently in the works). Trouble begins when a virus infecting the rat population of New York City begins spreading among animals and humans alike—one bite, one drop of blood or one string of saliva is all it takes to kill its victims, within minutes, and instantly revive them as mindless, flesh-eating zombies. Narrating this grim tale is gay 30-something Lamar Reed, who makes a hair-raising trip through the carnage of zombified Baltimore before he and a small group of survivors manage to commandeer a Coast Guard ship and get it out to sea. Together, the eclectic group search the coast for a safe harbor; meanwhile, an endless parade of zombies search the survivors' floating haven for a way in. Keene piles on the gory thrills as Lamar and his shipmates struggle through this diseased world, though they can be overly chatty at times (dialoging on everything from religion to Joseph Campbell). Delivering enough shudders and gore to satisfy any fan of the genre, Keene proves he's still a lead player in the zombie horror cavalcade. (Aug.)
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This one was probably a quicker read than his other zombie works, read it in two sittings. Loved the first person narrative and Keene didn't deviate from his usual formula i.e., a breathless, booklong chase. Although if he keeps on writing these zombie books, at some point he has to run out of descriptions for rotting humans. There has to be a limit, right? :D
 
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