The Outbreak: the Resistance Is Dead: Book 1

This is the story of a global pandemic that has infected roughly a third of the world in a short time. First published in 2016, in this world a national quarantine has been declared. Americans are uncertain about the future. President Adam Chambers is midway through his first term. He tries to leverage his popularity with the people to inspire cooperation between the governed and their government. Meanwhile, a group of friends who have fantasized survivalism scenarios for years are about to be in for the ride of their lives, When the mysterious new virus starts to kill the infected, and the dead come back with a hunger for brains and human flesh, the line begins to blur between reality and fantasy. The friends rely on their shared love of decades of zombie pop culture, hundreds of hours of gaming, and a couple of trunks of survivalist gear.President Chambers learns about a strangely real Pentagon zombie outbreak contingency plan that was drafted in the 1970s. He also discovers a conspiracy that reaches into the very heart of Washington D.C. He is stretched to the limits and pushed even further as the global situation grows from bad to so much worse. Will fast thinking and a general pop cultural familiarity with “the rules” be enough to keep society from falling apart?Review for “The Outbreak” (April 2017 Kindle Occult Horror #1 Best-Seller, and September 2024 Horror Suspense and Conspiracy Thriller Kindle #1 Best-Sellers):”A concise and metaphorically apt exploration of the contemporary American psyche. This book is the literary equivalent of Con Air if it were directed by David Lynch, with a screenplay by Mike Judge.”