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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
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