A surge in savage attacks, random and always at night, stretches police resources to the brink of collapse.
Joe Hawthorne has been a copper for twenty years, so he should have the experience to deduce what's happening. But time is against him, as the brutal, motiveless attacks threaten to shred the very fabric of civilisation before his eyes.
Fighting to save his colleagues and family, Hawthorne must find a way to escape the carnage. With his luck and courage close to breaking point, only a miracle can prevent him and his band of survivors from becoming infected too.
For what he is witnessing must surely be the rise of the undead. If the devastation looks like a zombie apocalypse, and the screams sound like a zombie apocalypse, then what other explanation could there be? Despite the devouring flames, the sickening violence, and the rabid insanity he encounters at every turn, there's just one snag, however.
Joe Hawthorne hasn't seen a single zombie anywhere.