Killing The Dead

by Martin Marriott

Ralph Farson is a fourteen-year-old boy trying to survive in a world full of crazy flesh-eating zombies. After killing his parents he leaves his home town of Bergen Grange and goes in search of a safe haven where he hopes to find fellow survivors. He is heading north to Idaho’s state capital of Boise when a change happens to his plans.
He meets a man called Derek Lovett.

Genres: Zombies

36 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 4, 2013

About the author

Martin Neil Alan Marriott (1981-) was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and raised in Tibshelf, Derbyshire. He stayed in Tibshelf until he was twenty years old before he made a new life for himself in The Lake District in Northern England. There he met Louise and they have been married for twelve years. They have two sons Ben and Jonny.
Martin has always wrote but never finished a story until the beginning of 2013!!!
He currently works as a depot manager of a plant hire company but one day he hopes to be a full time writer.

Reviews

[Netanella · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Killing the Dead" is a lovely little fantasy of gory zombie death and dismemberment, featuring a 14-year-old English kid's first person perspective on surviving the ZA. Ralph gets to kills his parents, put his ol' pa in the wood chipper. He encounters fast zombies (Movers), slow zombies (Shakers), dwarf zombies, cheerleader zombies. There's even a circus lion and a strange little psychic girl. With this menagerie of characters, the zombie gory comes fast and furious - and our intrepid little teenager hardly ever misses. In fact, I think there's a scene where he takes out two zombies eyes with one crossbow. Better than the arcade!

A fun book, and recommended for its genre.

[Lori Franklin Hopkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the zombie genre, and I have read many, many stories therein. This one started off as your typical zombie book, then toward the end took off in a strange, yet very interesting, direction! I thoroughly enjoyed this and I hope there is a sequel in the works.