From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad A pandemic has devastated the planet sorting humanity into two types the uninfected & the infected the living & the living dead The worst of the plague is now past & Manhattan is slowly being resettled Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street
- aka Zone One' & teams of civilian volunteers are clearing out the remaining infected stragglers' Mark Spitz is a member of one of these taskforces & over three surreal days he undertakes the mundane mission of malfunctioning zombie removal the rigours of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder & attempting to come to terms with a fallen world But then things start to go terribly wrong