#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 "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