Plague of the Dead (The Morningstar Strain) | 
| Author: Z. A. Recht
Creators: Travis Adkins, Bowie Ibarra
Publisher: Permuted Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 5085
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 308
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0978970705
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780978970703
ASIN: 0978970705
Publication Date: December 1, 2006
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Product Description
The end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind has ever encountered before. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, a dramatic increase in violent behavior, and a one-hundred percent mortality rate. Death. But it doesn't end there. 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 global pandemic. In one fell swoop, the necessities of life become much more basic. Gone are petty everyday concerns. Gone are the amenities of civilized life. Yet a single law of nature remains: Live, or die. Kill, or be killed. On one side of the world, 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-all thousands of miles from home. Back in the United States, an Army Colonel discovers the darker side of Morningstar virus and begins to collaborate with a well-known journalist to leak the information to the public... The Morningstar Saga has begun.
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 The Nuts? I'd say so..... July 21, 2008
I loved this book and i can't wait to get the sequel which has just come out and ive ordered and now i'd like to shamelessly plug my own book at the expense of a small quotation on Amazon here in the united states seeing as im from the UK and you know what us Brits are like, we love to blow our own - Please be a good citizen, do wonders for our overseas relationship and buy Deathday by Eugene Bruce (23rd in the list if you type my name in) I love you America!
Great Book July 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Check out Z. A. Recht for zombie lit. This book is great, and the second of the series is even better. Be prepaired to lose sleep over the Morningstar Saga. I just couldn't stop at bedtime.
Better by Far July 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've just finished this first book in the Morningstar Strain saga, and I've got to say, it rocked my socks off.
Plague of the Dead is better by far than David Wellington's zombie trilogy and J.L. Bourne's Day by Day Armageddon combined.
The inclusion of both speed zombies (for lack of a better way to put it) is brilliantly handled, as is the detailing of the initial containment attempts.
I would recommend this to any enthusiast of zombie lit. To borrow from Stan Lee, excelsior!
A refreshing take on the zombie genre... June 30, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is the first in a series of three about a virus outbreak that turns people into "zombie like" hosts for the virus. This was a very good book. I really like the story premise and the author's take on the zombie genre. There wasn't as much gore as I thought there would be in a zombie novel but there was still tons of action.
Since this is the first in the series the plot and story telling is a little bit slower than a lot of the other zombie books out there because the author knows he has three books to work his story into. In the book you get a good introduction to the main characters for the saga but one thing I didn't like is that there were almost too many characters for the author to work with and I don't really know a lot about any of them and there just really isn't the "main character connection" that really draws you into caring about who dies and who doesn't.
This is one of only a few zombie genre stories, books or movies, that doesn't make the military look like a bunch of power-hungry jarhead rapists. The group that the story focuses on is very down to earth and humble which is really refreshing for me since I'm almost to the point of hating any movie/book that goes the bad military persona way.
I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the saga and this book set-up a good story base for those that follow.
An amazing read! June 23, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have been a huge fan of re-animated dead since, George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, and for awhile I thought that was the only way I could get my zombie fix, via movies or video. Imagin my joy when I found out people were writing full length re-animated dead novels!
I researched alot of the differnt Zombie novels and I settled on Plague of the Dead The Morning Star Strain. What can I say this book, it was so well written, the research put into this book and the well thought out plot lines were done so amazingly well you forget that this is a story about re-animated dead people. We have virologists, military people deserted towns, gun fights, the story moves fast and leaves you wanting more. I recommend it, The Plague of the Dead does not disapoint. Its not a teeny bopper story, with nothing but blood and guts, this story is written for mature readers I know,, I am 41 and this is for adults to have a great time reading about how a virus kills then re-animates.
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