Synopsis
The day is any day now. The time: 1 A.M.  The place, New York's Downtown University Hospital.

A major pileup on the interstate has put an already short-handed medical staff into an all out panic as victim after victim show up hanging on to life by mere threads. Doctor Adam Riker and his staff work frantically to save them  to no avail. Many die on the operating tables.

In the back streets across town, Duane Rogers and Chuck Longfellow watch from the shadows as street gangs clash in a deadly battle. As one by one fall, the gangs are unaware of an approaching horror.

The metropolitan area of New York city is home to eight million people. In a very short period of time, most of them will be dead. There's a plague coming and it is like nothing the world has ever seen. This time there will be no cure. No corner of the Earth is unaffected, and precious little time remains as civilization and the forces of reason collapse. 

Death is no longer a place for peace... It is the dwelling place of demons

Character Synopsis

Chuck & Duane – Underachievers and petty criminals who have found themselves stranded in New York City as the outbreak ensues. A chance encounter with the infamous rapper, Jamal Owens, puts them on a dangerous trek across the city. The trio search for a temporary refuge and a way out of the increasingly dangerous and out of control situation.

Michael Longley – A seasoned veteran of the Chicago police force who loses his beloved wife in a tragic freeway collision in the Big Apple. The drama of the plague manifests itself in the hospital where they are taken by ambulance after their accident. With nothing left to lose he lends himself heroically to the survival efforts of the people around him.

Dr. Adam Riker – Wealthy Manhattanite surgeon who is a witness to the first resurrection of the first victim of the zombie apocalypse. As the hospital spirals into chaos he and Michael Longley team up to escape to Riker’s luxury apartment in the Trump World Tower. There they attempt to organize survivors and to plan a way out of the rapidly degenerating city.

(Melissa) – A young child with eerie powers of precognition is so traumatized by the ordeal that causes her sister's death that she loses her ability to speak.

Jim Workman

The Fate of Jim Workman -  The final part in the book is titled: Two Years Later, The lost Chapters. Jim Workman. It picks up near the end of Apocalypse End, just before Jim leaves Tangier. It explains what happens to him... and why.