by Bobby Adair

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Here's the set-up:

A new flu strain has been spreading across Africa, Europe, and Asia. Disturbing news footage is flooding the cable news channels. People are worried. People are frightened. But Zed Zane is oblivious.

Zed needs to borrow rent money from his parents. He gets up Sunday morning, drinks enough tequila to stifle his pride and heads to his mom’s house for a lunch of begging, again.

But something is wrong. There’s blood in the foyer. His mother’s corpse is on the living room floor. Zed’s stepdad, Dan is wild with crazy-eyed violence and attacks Zed when he comes into the house. They struggle into the kitchen. Dan’s yellow teeth tear at Zed’s arm but Zed grabs a knife and stabs Dan, thirty-seven times, or so the police later say.

With infection burning in his blood, Zed is arrested for murder but the world is falling apart and he soon finds himself back on the street, fighting for his life among the infected who would kill him and the normal people, who fear him.

One Reviewer Notes:

I am truly impressed with Bobby Adair's Slow Burn: Zero Day. It is one of the best pieces of zombie fiction I've ever read! Adair's writing style is matter-of-fact and honest, but he still has a strong sense of prosody and his diction is right on point. The book kicks right into action, skipping the often unnecessary details while still painting a vivid image of the setting and characters. There is a sense of immediacy about the book that grabs you by your shirt collar and doesn't let go! The book is highly visceral, gritty, and raw, but rather than it being gratuitous in terms of violence or gore, it actually uses these elements on a philosophical level as well as through literary tone. His ability to weave sardonic humour throughout the book yet still maintain a grave atmosphere illustrates a very advanced style of writing. The fast-paced action and suspense in Slow Burn had me hooked from the very first page to the very last.

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Slow Burn: Zero Day, Book 1

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