Omega Days

by John L. Campbell Narrated by Richard Ferrone

Overview

Eight million walking dead stalk the San Francisco Bay Area, with more on the way. Scattered refugees - a priest with a bloody past, a college girl turned sniper, escaped San Quentin inmates and others - will quickly learn the three most important rules of survival: Make your bullets count. Don't fall behind. Don't...get...bitten! Fast-paced and packed with zombie action, Book One of the Omega Days series lights off the apocalypse with a scream, and tears California to pieces!

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

★ 03/31/2014
Campbell (The Mangroves) provides an impressively convincing vision of a world suddenly gone insane in this print edition of a bestselling e-book, the start of a series. Catholic priest Xavier Church has a crisis of faith just as zombies overwhelm California; trading God for guns, he becomes the de facto leader of a wandering band of survivors. The implosion of civilization shreds the patina of decency surrounding amoral televangelist Peter Dunleavy, transforms wide-eyed college freshman Skye Dennison into a remorseless antizombie fighter, puts San Quentin inmates T.C. and Carney back on the mean streets, and gives Russian helicopter pilot Vladimir Yurish an opportunity for heroism. These and other struggles to survive underscore the traditional implied comparison between ravaging zombies and secular social collapse. The maelstrom that Campbell creates is a somber portrayal of the human capacity for both selfishness and, more rarely, altruism. He effectively builds a mood of terror that sweeps the reader along in this powerful example of the zombie thriller genre at its best. (May)

From the Publisher

When people ask me to recommend great zombie fiction one of the names I consistently mention is John L. Campbell.  Nobody writes an urban battle scene quite like he does. The pace of his storytelling will leave you breathless, and his characters are so real and so likeable you will jump up and cheer for them. Omega Days is, hands down, one of the shining stars of the zombie genre.  Do yourself a favor and move this one to the top of your to-be-read pile right now. You can thank me later.”—Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Savage Dead and Dead City

“An impressively convincing vision of a world suddenly gone insane…The maelstrom that Campbell creates is a somber portrayal of the human capacity for both selfishness and, more rarely, altruism. He effectively builds a mood of terror that sweeps the reader along in this powerful example of zombie thriller genre at its best.”—Publishers Weekly

"A highly entertaining read with a style that grabbed me from the very first page...There are creepy echoes…of masters like Koontz and King…If you want highly entertaining, escapist, zombie fiction with plenty of action peopled by rich and interesting characters, you couldn't do better than Omega Days."—SF Revu 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170906994
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	05/06/2014
Series:	Omega Days , #1
Edition description:	Unabridged

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