Zombie Apocalypse! Washington Deceased ~ Paperback ~ Stephen Jones

Zombie Apocalypse! Washington Deceased ~ Paperback ~ Stephen Jones
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A novel set within the Zombie Apocalypse! mythos created by Stephen Jones for his bestselling trilogy, Washington DC is sent during the second half of Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback, when the zombies' intelligence is increasing and they have formed themselves into a society, and an army. New York and Los Angeles have fallen to the walking dead and there has been no news out of Chicago, but Washington DC is still holding out and the South is still free. Time is running out, though, for the battalions defending Capitol Hill ...As the most powerful symbols of American democracy begin to fall, the President and her advisors must be protected at all costs. But what if there are people in her own government who are prepared to do a deal with the living-dead invaders to retain power at any cost? Meanwhile, 'Zombie King' Thomas Moreby is making his own plans to rule the United States as his control increases across the country. Moreby claims to have 'foreseen' his victory, but there are emerging factions in his own ranks who are starting to question their role in the war between zombies and humans. And how does the mysterious New World Pharmaceuticals fit into the New Zombie Order?Author BiographyLISA MORTON is a screenwriter, award-winning fiction author and novelist, and Halloween expert. After co-scripting (with legendary make-up effects artist Tom Burman) the cult movie favourite Meet the Hollowheads, she went on to co-write the Disney Channel's Adventures in Dinosaur City, and more recently wrote the vampire thriller Blood Angels (distributed by Universal). As a fiction writer, her work was most recently seen in the anthologies Zombie Apocalypse: Fightback!, Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Grim Reaper and Blood Lite 3. A four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the 2012 recipient of the Halloween Book Festival Grand Prize (for Trick or Treat?: A History of Halloween), her Halloween expertise has garnered her interviews with the BBC, the Boston Globe, The History Channel, and on the Blu-ray supplements of the feature film Trick 'r Treat. She lives in North Hollywood, California, and online at www.lisamorton.com STEPHEN JONES has won three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards. He has won the British Fantasy Award twenty-one times and is also a Hugo Award nominee. A former television producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant he has co-edited numerous books including The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror series as well as numerous other Mammoths. He lives in London.