The Afflicted

by Russ Watts

An aeroplane crashes at Melbourne airport and sole survivor Evan Crow wakes up on the tarmac suffering severe memory loss. Surrounded by zombies he flees, recalling only that he left his young children in Tasmania with his father. He has to navigate a city filled with ravenous zombies to rescue his children, whilst trying to remember who he is.
Evan is unsure of his past, his future, and simply trying to survive each day. The action is fast amid the ever present horror from the novel’s dramatic beginning through to the heart-pounding ending.

Genres: Zombies

214 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 2013

About the author

Russ Watts was born in Peterborough, England. At Manchester University he obtained a degree in Russian before forgetting it all as he travelled the world, putting off getting a real job for as long as possible.

He now lives with his wife in New Zealand; writing horror stories, reading horror novels, and watching horror films, waiting for the inevitable collapse of man into a zombie-filled hell.

Reviews

[John Mccrory · Rating 2 out of 5]

I loved the beginning of this book. A guy wakes up and realizes he's been in an airplane crash and doesn't remember anything else. From that point on he is running from zombies and joining up with other survivors. Overall it is a typical zombie book and wasn't anything new to you if you read a lot of zombie book. I would put it right in the middle of the pack. Overall I thought it was an okay book and worth the time to read.

[Matthikins · Rating 2 out of 5]

Entertaining enough, but the author's sadism towards the characters often seems contrived and occasionally described in overly gratuitous detail.

[Angela Verdenius · Rating 4 out of 5]

Now here’s a story with a twist at the end that I didn’t see coming! Lots of running, fleeing, chomping,fighting and a good story before that final twist!