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Throughout history, many have proclaimed to know when the end of the world was coming. Mostly those on the streets of New York City carrying signs that say the end is near. However, most people would probably agree, they would never know when or how the world was going to end. It would also be impossible to plan for the end of the world. You can’t plan for something that is unknown. You would have no idea what to do, what steps to take, in order to survive. That is, unless you had already lived through the end of the world. Levi, his wife and their dog Buddy piled into their car and set ...

If you saw the movie Night of the Living Dead, you only know half of the story! Contents Ground Zero Pages 1 – 194 Infection Z: Apocalypse Pages 195 - 565 Bonus Complimentary copy. Doctor Thomas Jacobs had led a hectic, fast paced but orderly and accomplished life. He had graduated medical school and the after only a few short years, he landed the job of head physician in charge of medical treatment at the Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. An amazing accomplishment for a man who had just turned thirty years old. But after a family was admitted to his hospital and began to...

When the US intercepted a Chinese virus which they determined was meant to be unleashed on the United States within 48 hours, they had to act fast. If they could not find a vaccine to protect the country within 48 hours, the country would be defenseless against the attack. The normal process to find a vaccine could take months or longer. In a desperate attempt to find a cure before we were attacked, they did the unthinkable and released the virus in a small town in Western Pennsylvania in the hopes that under a real-world environment a cure could be found in days instead of months. However,...

Infection Z – The Apocalypse Mike and Tony were on a weekend getaway of drinking beer, playing cards and solving the world’s problems at Tony’s cabin when the end began. They had often discussed how fragile the world was. The world’s many unstable political leaders could throw the world into chaos at any time over something as simple as a someone waking up on the wrong side of the bed. The financial markets of the world were constantly on the brink of plunging the world into bankruptcy. Someone being late on their car payment could push the world into a major depression. Society was...

When Dave Kelly graduated from college, he decided to leave the family farm in Ohio and make his own way in the world. Dave accepted a job in Starke, Florida. He took Maggie, his zombie book fanatic wife, his three year old son Joey and moved to Florida. The job didn’t pan out as expected. During the last two years Dave and his family struggled to eat and pay the bills. They thought things couldn’t get any worse. They couldn’t have been more wrong. When a fantastic job opportunity presented itself, Dave and Maggie couldn’t believe their luck. They felt that their lives had finally ...

Shaun and Megan lived in the outskirts of a small town near Latrobe, Pennsylvania. They ignored the news coverage of an outbreak in Africa. Africa was always having outbreaks of some sort of disease. When the networks began to report incidents taking place in Europe, they ignored the reports as another effort by the networks to sensationalize the news and make something out of nothing. They started to take the reports more seriously when outbreaks started to occur in New York and Pittsburgh. But by then, it was too late. Within days, the dead were everywhere. It was impossible to go into ...

Airman Johnson, the Air Force’s new “Golden Boy” brings an unusual idea to his Lieutenant and his Captain. He believes he has uncovered a secret enemy operation that has gone undetected by our country’s security system. When Johnson’s commanding officers agree that he may have stumbled onto a threat to our national security, they take action to neutralize the threat. However, their operation to quietly neutralize the threat turns into what appears to be a giant fiasco. Tim scrambles to get out of work early so he can get home in time for his daughter’s birthday party. Despite ...

When Mike Hodges and his friends decided one night on a whim to join the Army, they could have never imagined how their lives would change. As things worked out, their joining the Army didn’t have anything to do with what was to happen, but it did give them an insider’s view of what was soon to begin. They always knew that with the state of the world, with climate change, over population and worldwide starvation, with the fact that no one was able to get along with each other, that if something didn’t change civilization would one day implode. However, when the world began to be ...

Tom Henderson had everything a man could ask for, a beautiful wife, a new home, a great job and maybe the best thing of all, a little daughter that would be starting the first grade in another month. The future held nothing but unlimited possibilities. However, that was one year ago. Today all Tom had was the clothes on his back and the knowledge he had gained over the last year. The knowledge that had kept him alive in a world now dominated by the dead. For the last year Tom had roamed the hills of Kentucky searching for other survivors. After a year of barely surviving in what felt like a...

The Aftermath The Z virus fell from the sky and within days the world had changed in ways that no one could have ever predicted. One month later, it was a wasteland. The cities were dark, dead monuments to the horror filled final days of mankind. The machines, cars and buildings were now just the ugly skeletal remains of what the human race had accomplished before it died. The dead decaying bodies that lined the streets and highways, told the story of mankind’s final days to anyone who cared to listen. The story of the struggle to live, then the story of those who ran for their lives when...

A note from the author The Land of the Dead is the fourth book in the It’s not Over series, however it is also a stand-alone novel. It is not necessary to have read the other three books. Feel free to read this book first. To get some background information on Gary, Alyce, Sally, Charlie, Betty, Tom, Duke and Lady and how they all ended up at the mountain cabin above Worthington, I hope you will give the first three books a try. If you have already read the first three books, I Thank You and I hope you enjoy The Land of the Dead. The Land of the Dead When the Zombie Apocalypse came, those...

Winfield Junction was a town where nothing ever happened. It was a small isolated community out in the countryside northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a few miles off of Interstate Route 28. No one paid much attention to the small community and Winfield Junction paid little attention to what was going on in the outside world. When strange things started to occur around Winfield Junction, it took them all by surprise. The zombie apocalypse had begun, causing the power and all forms of communication to go out. The residents of Winfield Junction had no idea what was going on and they would ...

It was a normal balmy night in Kingsland, Georgia, at least that was how it started. But as the night progressed, it soon became apparent that something about the night was wrong. It wasn’t long after the night began that things started to spiral out of control. Michelle arrived at the Kingsland Public Safety Building to start her first night on her new job. She had bought a new dress and hoped to make a good impression on her first night. The job was something she had never done before, but she hoped she would be able get through the night without making too many mistakes. After all, she...

Gary and Alyce set out in their RV on a long anticipated and much needed vacation. They plan to spend a week of quiet and relaxation in the little beach town of Cape May on the Jersey Shore. They arrive at their favorite campground, The Depot Travel Park, and start what they hope will be a “Great” week of fun and relaxation. The US Coast Guard Cutter, Endever, led by Lieutenant Commander Charles Smith, aka “Smitty”, makes a fascinating discovery off the coast of Cape May. A discovery that soon sets off a chain reaction of horrific events in Cape May! Soon Gary and Alyce’s “Quiet...

It had been one year since the Zombie Apocalypse began, Chris and his friends had built a life for themselves in what remained of an old farm that had been abandoned in the countryside outside of Irwin, Pennsylvania. The old farm had given them a chance to learn how to survive after their world had been turned upside down. They had learned how to protect themselves, to find food and avoid the horrible death that awaited anyone that let their guard down or became careless. They were proud of what they had accomplished and felt that they had learned just about everything they needed to know ...

Doc Kennedy, Petty Officer Chervanak, Seamen Davis and Rogers had been searching for signs of life ever since they arrived at Granite Mountain. After a long operation, they had only managed to find two girls and a dog (Abbey, Fran and Snoop) near Stone Idaho. With a little communication’s wizardry, Marine Captain Byron and a few of his men, along with the small group they had discovered living near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, (Tony, Mike, Linda, four year old Jamie and her cat, George) had found Doc and his group and joined up with them at Granite Mountain. Despite these two small successes,...

Some thought they were prepared, but to be prepared, you first had to know what it was you were preparing for. No sane person would ever prepare for something that could never occur. When the Zombie Apocalypse came, by the time anyone figured out what was happening, it was too late. It was already over. People were at first confused, they thought it was a joke. When they began to realize this was for real, they had already lost any chance they had to stop it. When the masses of the dead began to double in size every hour, there was just no way to stop them. Many people weren’t even aware ...

Preface Gary and Alyce had been on vacation when the zombie apocalypse began. The little beach town of Cape May turned from paradise to hell. They managed to survive when Cape May was overrun by the hordes of the undead. They barely escaped and made it back home to Pennsylvania. Within days the world they knew was crumbling around them. Life as they knew it ceased to exist. Life now was no longer having nice things, watching your favorite TV show, or deciding what to have for dinner. Life was now a matter of just surviving the day. With the evils of what was now the world closing in on them...

They had survived the Zombie apocalypse and had escaped to an isolated location in the mountains in Western Pennsylvania. Then they had survived the roaming gangs of the living that appeared when civilization became a broken lawless free for all. Finally they had managed to live through the sub-freezing temperatures of a long Pennsylvania winter. Gary and Alyce hoped the cold winter had cleansed the world of the evils that taken over the world. As the warm sun of spring began to bring hope, Gary and Alyce leave their safe isolated cabin in the mountains in search of the answers to their ...

The House on the Road to Hell It was a pandemic that no one could have ever expected. With in a few months after it made its first appearance, most of humanity had been destroyed and civilization became a distant memory. The living that still remained had lost everything. They were reduced to scavenging through what little they could find in the land of the dead. Mick Taylor was one of the living that had somehow survived the initial onslaught of the dead. Mick had to risk his life every day just to find something to eat as he dodged the dead that hunted the living. One day while traveling ...