Max Brooks Box Set: World War Z & Zombie Survival Guide ~ Paperback ~ Max Brooks

This boxed set includes two New York Times bestsellers from Max Brooks: “World War Z” and “The Zombie Survival Guide.” The box features line art from the graphic novel, " Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks." THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain. Reviews “I doubt that I'll read a more disturbing book this year. Buy it for yourself, your friends, put a copy next to your toilet. Brilliantly written, morbidly funny, completely convincing”- Simon Morden, Vector. "So meticulous and well researched that it's more scary than funny. This book lays out everything you need to know to protect yourself from flesh-eating monsters' – Esquire ‘A bloody-minded, straight laced manual for evading the grasp of the undead’ – Time Out ‘A tome you start reading for fun and then at page 50 you go out and buy a machete just to be on the safe side’ – New York Post WORLD WAR Z The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years. It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse. Faced with a future of mindless, man-eating horror, humanity was forced to accept the logic of world government and face events that tested our sanity and our sense of reality. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and key players in the 10-year fight-back against the horde, “World War Z” brings the very finest traditions of American journalism to bear on what is surely the most incredible story in the history of civilisation. Reviews "‘An absolute must have… Brooks infuses his writing with such precise detail and authenticity, one wonders if he knows something we don't’ – Simon Pegg, writer and director, Shaun of the Dead ‘A cracking read… Brooks has hit gruesome gold with this beauty… one of the best books I've read all year’ – The Darkside Magazine “An ‘oral history’ of the global war the evil brain-chewers came within a hair of winning. Zombies are among us-turn on your television if you don’t believe it. But, Brooks reassures us, even today, human fighters are hunting down the leftovers, and we’re winning. [His] iron-jaw narrative is studded with practical advice on what to do when the zombies come, as they surely will. A literate, ironic, strangely tasty treat.” -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Possesses more creativity and zip than entire crates of other new fiction titles. Think Mad Max meets The Hot Zone . . . It’s Apocalypse Now, pandemic-style. Creepy but fascinating.”- USA TODAY “A horror fan’s version of Studs Terkel’s The Good War. . . . Like George Romero’s Dead trilogy, World War Z is another milestone in the zombie mythology.”- Booklist “Brooks commits to detail in a way that makes his nightmare world creepily plausible. . . . Far more affecting than anything involving zombies really has any right to be. . . . The book . . . opens in blood and guts, turns the world into an oversized version of hell, then ends with and affirmation of humanity’s ability to survive the worst the world has to offer. It feels like the right book for the right times, and that’s the eeriest detail of all.”- A.V. Club, The Onion “The best science fiction has traditionally been steeped in social commentary. World War Z continues that legacy. . . . We haven’t been this excited about a book without pictures since-well, since ever.” – Metro Author Biography The “New York Times” bestselling author of “The Zombie Survival Guide,” “World War Z,” and “The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks,” MAX BROOKS has been called “the Studs Terkel of zombie journalism.”