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Five ordinary people must pay the price of survival at the end of the world. A mysterious virus suddenly strikes down millions. Three days later, its victims awake with a single purpose: spread the Infection. As the world lurches toward the apocalypse, some of the Infected continue to... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Sarge (Toby Wilson): a tank commander hardened by years of fighting in Afghanistan
- Wendy Saslove: a cop still fighting for law and order in a lawless land
- Ethan Bell: a teacher searching for his lost family
- Todd Paulsen: a high school student who sees second chances in the end of the world
- Paul Melvin: a minister who wonders why God has forsaken his children
- Anne Leary: their mysterious leader, who holds an almost fanatical hatred of the Infected
- Steve: Bradley's gunner
- Ducky: Bradley's driver
- Ray Young: town misfit turned police sergeant of Camp Defiance's militia
- Bradley Fighting Vehicle: the armored personnel carrier that serves as fortress, wheels and home for the survivors
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“He sighs and wonders what Sara would think about the new Paul if she were still alive. He takes comfort in the understanding she loved him and would want him to survive no matter what the cost. She would tell him to kill the thing in the alley. She would say: You are my man and I love you more than myself. She would say: Survive, baby. She would say: Kill them all.”
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“Outside, they hear the howl of the Infected and the tramp of hundreds of feet. Distant gunshots and screams. Then it is so quiet they can hear the blood rushing through their veins. In the dim light of a lantern, Ethan accepts a sleeping pill from Wendy and dry swallows it.”
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“Paul lowers his respirator mask to cover his face while the others lift wet bandanas over their mouths. Steve pours gasoline into the hole with the body and Sarge lights it. They step back from the sudden fury of heat and light. Sarge insisted on burning him. That way, he said, nothing will be able to dig him up and eat him.”
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is not king. He is not king because nobody recognizes him as king. The others do not even know he is there.
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We try to live with as little pain and as much pleasure as possible. But pain makes us realize we are alive. We truly live one moment to the next when we live with pain. When pain stops, we become afraid. And we remember things we do not wish to remember that are themselves painful.
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How would you solve for x? Answer: You try to kill it.
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The funny thing about the story of Job is that Job never questioned Satan. In Hebrew, Satan has two meanings. One is the Adversary. The other is ha-Satan, the Accuser. In either case, he is an Angel of the Lord. Maybe Job did not question Satan because he did not have to do so. If God is everything, he is also Satan. The Adversary. The Accuser. Creator of Heaven and Earth.
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living your life like a defective CD eternally skipping during your favorite song is not living.
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There is no honor in survival, but life goes on and life is everything. Nothing else matters. And anybody who thinks differently is a fool—a fool who probably won’t live very long.
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“There is a path to the top of even the highest mountain,” he exclaimed, quoting an Afghan proverb.
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“The Infected. They’re pretty much the living dead. But us? We’re the dead living.”
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“I wonder how much time we spend each day doing things and not actually knowing we’re alive,”
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If God can appear cruel and hypocritical and vindictive, well, we are all made in his image, he reminds himself. God should have told Job that he had no right to question him because as bad as God is, people are even worse. When the chips are down, the best and worse is on full display.
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First Sentence edit
Ethan was at the end of his patience trying to explain using factoring to solve equations to his high school algebra class when everybody started falling down.
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- Craig DiLouie (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Permuted Press
Country: USA
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Page Count: 286
Publisher: Permuted Press
Country: USA
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Page Count: 286
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- Dewey: 813
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