The Living Dead
George A. RomeroBrought to you by Penguin.
It begins with one body.
A pair of medical examiners find themselves facing a dead man who won’t stay dead.
It spreads quickly.
In a Midwestern trailer park, an African American teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly risen friends and family.
On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic preaches the gospel of a new religion of death.
At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting, not knowing if anyone is watching, while his undead colleagues try to devour him.
In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come.
Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead.
We think we know how this story ends.
We. Are. Wrong.