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Whiskey Jack
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
ISBN13: 9780982821817
Publisher: Twisted River Press, LLC
Published: Nov 24 2010
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A gritty, darkly funny post-apocalyptic thriller for fans of Day by Day Armageddon and Zombie Fallout.
Corporal Jack Criley was only months from leaving the Marines behind and going home to his wife and children.
Then the world ended.
Across post-apocalyptic America, the population has transformed - not into mindless undead, but into savage, evolving mutations that hunt in packs, think, and grow more dangerous every day. Cities have collapsed. Survivors have vanished. And Jack has spent months fighting his way cross-country with one purpose: find his family.
He found them.
It wasn't the reunion he prayed for.
Shattered by grief, guilt, and rage, this battle-hardened Marine finds a brutal new purpose in the ruins: kill as many of the creatures as possible before they finally kill him. It's not hope. It's not a plan. It's the only thing keeping his finger off the trigger pointed at himself.
But something keeps driving him forward - something deeper than revenge, something he fears almost as much as living.
And no bottle of whiskey can numb it.
Jack won't win any awards for emotional maturity. He'll antagonize a monster mid-gunfight, laugh at the worst possible moment, and reach for a bottle when he should be reaching for answers. But in a world that's lost everything worth saving, his particular brand of reckless, dark-humored stubbornness might be exactly what survival looks like.
Perfect for readers who love: lone survivor stories - broken military antiheroes - dark humor in the apocalypse - evolving zombie threats with intelligence - The Walking Dead - The Last of Us - fans of J.L. Bourne and Mark Tufo
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