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One Frustrated Man's Apocalypse Story

I played all those cool video games. I watched all those movies. I even read the books. In most of 'em, the hero shoots the bad guys, drives a sweet car, never gets hungry, and always seems to get laid by the end. Yeah. Whatever.…

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Dusty lives in an underground bunker in his backyard. He’s been inside there for two years straight when the novel begins. He’s got food and water and electricity and a library of survival books and old movies on DVD. Outside his bunker the world has been taken over by a plague that transforms people into mindless monsters. 

And while this sounds like a typical Zombie Survival story, it is Dusty himself that makes the book. He is a middle-aged blue-collar man, divorced, with three grown daughters who are now lost to him forever. While much of the book is laugh-out-loud…

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