The Savage Dead

Joe McKinney

Sep 2013 · Pinnacle Books

About this ebook

A rising star on the horror scene. --Fearnet.com

The Voyage Begins

It starts in a laboratory. A man-made strain of flesh-eating virus. Created by a power-hungry cartel. Capable of turning victims into brain-dead carnivores. Smuggled aboard a cruise ship that's about to set sail. . .

The Virus Spreads

One by one, the passengers are exposed. A U.S. senator. A young couple. An undercover agent. A beautiful assassin. Some will be infected. Others will survive. But no one will be spared if the outbreak isn't contained--and the dead outnumber the living. . .

The Corpses Rise

Enter Delta Force operative Juan Perez. He's fought the deadliest killers in the darkest hellholes on earth. But he's never seen anything like this--an apocalyptic cargo of pure zombie mayhem heading for the coast. If Perez and his SEAL team can't stop it, America, and quickly the entire population of the world, are finished. The plague years will begin. . .

Praise for Joe McKinney's Novels

"A merciless, fast-paced and genuinely scary read that will leave you absolutely breathless." --Bram Stoker Award-winning author Brian Keene on Dead City

"A fantastic tale of survival horror that starts with a bang and never lets up." --Zombiehub.com on Mutated

Ratings and reviews

Another book with the same plot as the rest, the start of a zombie outbreak with characters I feel no attachment to. Go read any of his previous four or so books, it's the same first third of nothing important happening, then a middle with some violence and dull conflict, topped off by the same ending; unfulfilling and incomplete. Yawn. An attempt to at least intertwine the stories from all books, or continue one or two, would have at least tried to mask the fact he's an incredibly tedious author.

Political rubbish. Boring,dull claptrap. Wish I hadn't wasted my money. Loved dead city but hated this one

Not a bad book, but not one of his best It was an easy read with a predictable ending

About the author

Joe McKinney has been a patrol officer for the San Antonio Police Department, a homicide detective, a disaster mitigation specialist, a patrol commander, and a successful novelist. His books include the four-part Dead World series, Quarantined, Inheritance, Lost Girl of the Lake, The Savage Dead, Crooked House and Dodging Bullets. His short fiction has been collected in The Red Empire and Other Stories and Dating in Dead World. His latest novel is the werewolf thriller, Dog Days, set in the summer of 1983 in the little Texas town of Clear Lake, where the author grew up. In 2011, McKinney received the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. A regular guest at regional writing conventions, Joe currently lives and works in a small town north of San Antonio with his wife and children. For more information go to joemckinney.wordpress.com.