James Robert Smith

✍ Scribed by Smith, James Robert

• Book ID: 107284556
• Publisher: Severed Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 168 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

One Hundred and Fifty Million Zombies. Sixty Million Dogs. All of them hungry for warm human flesh. The dead have risen, killing anyone they find. The living know what's caused it-a vicious contagion. But too late to stop it. For now, what remains of society are busy shutting down nuclear reactors and securing chemical plants to prevent runaway reactions in both. There's little time for anything else. Failed comic book artist Rick Nuttman and his family have joined thousands of other desperate people in trying to find a haven from the madness. Perhaps refuge can be found in the village of Sparta or maybe there is salvation in The City of Ruth, a community raised from the ashes of Carolina. In the low country below the hills, a monster named Danger Man changes everything. While watching over it all, the mysterious figure of BC, moving his gigantic canine pack westward, into lands where survivors think they are safe And always, the mindless hordes neither living nor dead, waiting only to destroy. There will be a reckoning.

This guy James Robert Smith can write! Not since Philip K. Dick have I a read an author who so convincingly paints the social milieu of his story s world. From the very first page I felt eerily and alarmingly at home in James Robert Smith s The Living End. Every detail is masterfully rendered on the page. Plus, he gives us zombies. And dogs! I loved The Living End. Bravo, James Robert Smith! Your book blew me away. - Joe McKinney, author of Dead City and Apocalpse of the Dead

Review

James Robert Smith can write! Not since Philip K. Dick have I a read an author who so convincingly paints the social milieu of his story's world. Plus, he gives us zombies. Bravo! Your book blew me away.

--Joe McKinney, author DEAD CITY

About the Author

James Robert Smith is the author of over sixty published short stories, hundreds of pages of comic book scripts, and three novels. THE LIVING END is his take on the zombie trope and shows his great respect for the sub-genre created by George A. Romero.
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Mr. Smith has set THE LIVING END in his native southern US and used the story to address some issues and problems that seem to have been missed or ignored by other writers delving into apocalyptic fiction.__