VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling mind-altering and deliciously
atmospheric journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.From
the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground RailroadA pandemic has devastated the
planet sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected the living and the
living dead. The worst of the plague is now past and Manhattan is slowly being resettled.
Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street - aka 'Zone One' and
teams of civilian volunteers are clearing out the remaining infected 'stragglers'.Mark Spitz is
a member of one of these taskforces and over three surreal days he undertakes the mundane
mission of malfunctioning zombie removal the rigours of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder and
attempting to come to terms with a fallen world.But then things start to go terribly wrong...'A
dark futuristic satire laced with fiendish humour' The Times
