A lot can change in three months:wars can be decided, nations can be forged... or entire species can be brought to the brink of annihilation.
The Morningstar Virus, an incredibly virulent disease, has swept the face of the planet, infecting billions.
Its hosts rampage, attacking anything that remains uninfected. Even death can't stop the virus - it's victims as cannibalistic shamblers.
Scattered across the world, embattled groups have preserved. For some, surviving is the pinnacle of achievement. Others hoard goods and weapons. And still others leverage power over the remnants of humanity in the form of a mysterious cure for Morningstar.
Francis Sherman and Anna Demilio want only a vaccine, but to find it, they must cross a countryside in ruins, dodging not only the infected, but also lawless living.
The bulk of the storm has passed over the world, leaving echoing thunder and softly drifting ashes. But for the survivors, the peril remains, and the search for a cure is just beginning...
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I so wish I'd had the time to read this book in a few days as it is meant to not put it down as soon as you've picked it up. However, even though I rarely had the time to read in the past days, I enjoyed it whenever I had the time.
The story almost continues where we where Plague of the Dead left us:
Lt. Colonel Anna Demilio of USAMRIID (US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease) and Major General Francis Sherman have an appointment in Omaha to meet at an mostly unknown research facility. Their last hope is a vaccine and Anna's the only person which might be able to develop one. One their journey both groups face their obstacles:
While Anna's trying to hide from Sawyer and his assignment to catch and bring her back to work for what remains of the government.
Sherman and his small group of soldiers and civilians face similar obstacles while losing longtime members of their groups to the undead. On their way they have to not only fight against the fast running carriers and slow shamblers but also against a group of raiders threatening a small, enclosed town of survivors.
Until they meet in Omaha the book very much focuses on survival in a dead world, food, gasoline and a little rebuilding.
The reader also meets with Captain Prescott Franklin and Commander Harris of the U. S. S. Ramage, the ship Sherman and his group left to meet with Anna. Franklin decided to set his men free at the command of Harris. He decides to try to get to Omaha, too, and on his way they discover humanities only possible hope: immune blood. Their goal is to protect it by all means until they arrive in Omaha.
It is too bad the book ends at this point. I almost felt sorry for myself because I know it took the writer quite some time to publish the continuation of the first novel.
In the end the book has everything and a bit more of what the reader expects. I can only recommend it !
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More about the Morningstar Saga.
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Permuted Press (April 21, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934861014
ISBN-13: 978-1934861011
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