Much like Max Brooks' World War Z is told by numerous eyewitnesses, so too is Zombie Apocalypse!, although this covers many different formats to tell the complete story - text messages, e-mails, blogs, letters, diaries and transcripts. When drastic measures fail to eradicate the outbreak at its source, the plague spreads quickly to mainland Europe and then across the rest of the world. Soon what starts out as a local incident centred around the church spreads all across London and the whole country descends into chaos. This supernatural virus has the power to revive the dead. A centuries old plague, believed to have been responsible for the Black Death, is released, turning its victims into flesh-hungry zombies, whose bite or scratch passes the contagion on to others. Health and safety concerns are ignored, corners are cut and no one bothers to do a proper research of the burial site of the church that is being excavated. But things go disastrously wrong at a construction site on the grounds of an old church. The story is set in the near future, starting off in London as the British government attempts to restore national pride with a New Festival of Britain. Running to 512 pages, this is a weighty tome indeed. For a big zombie fan like myself, that was just the sort of title to grab my attention. I've just finished reading this novel - Zombie Apocalypse! by Stephen Jones.
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