Brooks, author of the straight-faced parody The Zombie Survival Guide, tells the story of the world\'s desperate battle against the Zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts by various characters around the world. -- Dallas Morning News.
This is action-packed social-political satire with a global view. . . -- Entertainment Weekly, EW Pick Probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles\'s War of the Worlds radio broadcast .
A. -- USA Today Will grab you as tightly as a dead man\'s fist.
Creepy but fascinating.
It\'s Apocalypse Now , pandemic-style. . . .
Think Mad Max meets The Hot Zone . -- The New York Times Book Review Possesses more creativity and zip than entire crates of other new fiction titles.
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Will spook you for real.
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.
World War Z is the result.
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.
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.
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. #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.
Brooks, author of the straight-faced parody The Zombie Survival Guide, tells the story of the world\'s desperate battle against the Zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts by various characters around the world
