Zone One: A Novel

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER <b>•</b> From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>The Underground Railroad</i> and <i>The Nickel Boys</i>: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. <b><b>•</b> "</b>One of the best books of the year." <i>—Esquire</i><br><br></b>After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies. <i>Zone One</i> unfolds over three surreal days in which Spitz is occupied with the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD), and the impossible task of coming to terms with a fallen world. And then things start to go terribly wrong…<br><br>At once a chilling horror story and a literary novel by a contemporary master, <i>Zone One</i> is a dazzling portrait of modern civilization in all its wretched, shambling glory.