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Jim Workman
returns from a three-week wilderness retreat in the Blue Ridge
Mountains to find that the world is a vastly different place.
In the few short weeks since he dropped out of civilization a
bizarre plague has swept the planet. The recently dead are
rising as feeding machines that feast on the warm flesh of the
living. A bite from one of the creatures is ultimately fatal
as one ghoul becomes two, becomes eight, becomes sixteen,
until the human species is nearly
extinct.
Jim joins a group of about a hundred survivors who are
temporarily barricaded in a local rescue center as they search
for a way to make it through this waking nightmare
In an isolated country house just miles from the rescue center
the sanctimonious Reverend R.T. Peterson is leading a group of
troubled teenagers. Guided by his visions and voices, the
Reverend forges a twisted plan to carry out God's will now
that the apocalypse is upon them.
In a nearby government installation, tucked deep beneath the
mountain, scientists search for answers as the scientific,
military and political forces involved battle for dominance
and survival.
The story follows the lives of six main characters as they
attempt to navigate through a nightmarish world of death and
destruction. It is a tale of good and evil, of love and of the
indomitable human spirit, leading to the climactic encounter
as the three factions finally come together. |
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