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The Iron Pig: The Iron Pig: Dead on the Tracks
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 1 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
1982. The war in the Falklands is over. The real nightmare is just beginning.
When the British Task Force returned from the South Atlantic, they brought back more than a victory. They brought the Shakkers.
A biological rage virus-known as the A-12 agent-has torn through the United Kingdom in a matter of weeks. The government has dissolved. The military has fractured. And the cities have become graveyards of the living dead.
The Mission: One Final Directive.
In the fog-choked hills of Wales, Queen Elizabeth II is trapped in a crumbling estate, surrounded by a swarm that never tires and never sleeps. A mismatched squad of 3 Para veterans, led by the battle-hardened Corporal Baz Reid and a pack of tactical German Shepherds, is given one final, impossible order: Get the Queen to the Isle of Man.
The Machine: A Relic of Iron.
With the roads blocked and the airfields compromised, the squad's only hope is a rusted museum piece-a Class 08 diesel shunter known as The Iron Pig. Behind it, an armored Royal Mail van called The Postbox serves as a rolling fortress. Together, they must thunder down the overgrown branch lines of a dying kingdom.
The Traitor: A Wolf in the Fold.
But the squad is harboring a secret more dangerous than the Shakkers. Among them is Sean Maguire, an IRA assassin wearing a dead man's uniform. He has spent his life wanting to destroy the Crown, but as the tracks run out and the infection begins to burn in his own veins, he must choose between the revenge of his past and the survival of the future.
The Iron Pig: Dead on the Tracks is a gritty, relentless military thriller that blends the dark reality of 1980s Britain with a cinematic zombie apocalypse.
The rails are slick. The fuel is low. The dead are waiting at the next station.
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