TY - BOOK AU - Romero,George A. AU - Kraus,Daniel TI - THE LIVING DEAD SN - 9781787633926 U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 2020/// CY - [London] PB - Bantam Press, KW - Survival KW - Fiction KW - Zombies KW - Plague KW - Death KW - Horror fiction N2 - It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves facing a dead man who won't stay dead. It spreads quickly. In a Midwestern trailer park, an African American teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic preaches the gospel of a new religion of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting, not knowing if anyone is watching, while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come. Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead. We think we know how this story ends. We. Are. Wrong ER -