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Author V.M. Zito makes a strong debut with his zombie ridden road trip across a Southwest nobody lives in anymore, except of course, the dead, some cultists that would be better off that way, and Henry Marco, once a prominent neurologist, and now known to those who need him as "the zombie hitman".

Product Description: The outbreak tore the US in two. The east remains a safe haven. The west has become a ravaged wilderness, known by survivors as the Evacuated States. It is here that Henry Marco makes his living. Hired by grieving relatives, he tracks down the dead and delivers peace.

Now Homeland Security wants Marco for a mission unlike any other. He must return to California, where the apocalypse began. Where a secret is hidden. And where his own tragic past waits to punish him again.

But in the wastelands of America, you never know who - or what - is watching you.

(Source: Orbit)