Plague Of The Dead: The Morningstar Strain by Z. A. Recht

The Blurb On The Back:

The end begins with an unprecedented vital outbreak:

Morningstar. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, violent behaviour ... and a one hundred percent mortality rate.

But the end is only the beginning:

The victims return from death to walk the earth. When a massive military operation fails to contain the plague of the living dead, it escalates into a worldwide pandemic.

Now, a single law of nature dominates the global landscape:

Live or die, kill or be killed. On one side of the world, thousands of miles from home, a battle-hardened general surveys the remnants of his command: a young medic, a veteran photographer, a brash private, and dozens of refugees – all are his responsibility. While in the United States, an army colonel discovers the darker side of Morningstar and collaborates with a well-known journalist to leak the information to the public ...

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The Verdict:

Although this contains many of the elements that I enjoy about zombie novels in general, it’s let down by a wide cast of cardboard characters and a plot that jumps around a little too much. For all this, I’m enough of a zombie fan to want to read the sequel, but those new to the genre may want to look elsewhere.

Thanks to Simon & Schuster for the free copy of this book.