This is by far the bleakest section of the novel as it documents the last hope of mankind as the numbers of zombies multiply and hopes of humanity dwindle. Brooks also introduces the reader to a soldier who fought in the Battle of Yonkers, which was a battle between thousands of undead New Yorkers and US soldiers, who were ultimately defeated and forced to retreat. He interviews a family who decides to head north to Canada in the hopes that the cold would freeze the undead only to be faced with another problem: starving, desperate humans. Not everybody who fought and died in the Zombie War was a solider as Brooks introduces us to regular people who fought for themselves and their families. These are just a few of the characters that Brooks introduces us to before the epidemic spreads and the world is in the grasp of the undead in what was called the "Great Panic." The "Great Panic" is the section of the book where Brooks details the encounters between the undead and people around the world. Those interviewed include: an elderly Chinese doctor who encounters what they refer to as "Patient Zero," the first zombie of the initial outbreak and a doctor in South America who involuntarily performs a heart transplant with an infected heart and cleans up his own mess. Brooks shows great political insight as he "interviews" the survivors, each one with their own idea regarding who is to blame regarding the outbreak.
Without warning, the plague of flesh hungry undead soon spills into parts of Asia, Europe and is soon transmitted globally. He starts the novel by documenting the outbreak in China which was covered up by officials at the highest levels of government.
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Max Brooks returns with his second zombie related novel, "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War." Whereas his first novel, "The Zombie Survival Guide" gave precise instructions on how to prepare for a zombie uprising, this novel is a collection of interviews done by the author (we can only assume it's Brooks himself) with dozens of survivors of the Zombie War, a worldwide global catastrophe that had taken place a few years earlier.
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