THE UNDEAD AND THE UNREADY Colonel Jack Crown, M.D., and Dr. Benjamin Lieber battle zombies and contagion while the U.S. government keeps citizens in the dark on day one of the Z-Factor crisis.
The first hordes form as Jack’s fiancé, Dr. Grace Waters, watches deceased patients reanimate at the Veteran’s Administration hospital. She desperately calls Jack when the hospital is overrun, but some are not lucky enough to escape the relentless undead.
Note to Readers
Zombie Protocols , a novella, is included in the novel, Zombie The Origin , a collection of the four novellas in the Z-Factor How I Started the Zombie Apocalypse, Zombie Protocols, Zombie Contagion , and Zombies and Men .
Zombie The Origin is the first novel in the Zombie Apocalypse series
Excerpt Grace looked at Jim’s white face and his damaged neck. He had already bled out. No one could survive that kind of wound. Yet Jim walked toward Inez. Grace felt her blood run cold.
“Run!” she yelled. “Get out of the room!”
Inez turned and ran. Grace met her at the door. Bill seemed frozen in place. End of Excerpt
Zombie Protocols , a novella, is included and continued in the novel, Zombie The Origin , which includes the entire Z-Factor series, novellas 1-3: How I Started the Zombie Apocalypse, Zombie Protocols , and Zombie Contagion . The novel continues the saga with a new story, Zombies and Men.
Michael K. Clancy is author Janet Tavakoli's pen name for her gripping Zombie Apocalypse novels. This acclaimed science fiction series chronicles humanity's struggle against a devastating virus that raises the dead, blending military strategy, virology, and pulse-pounding action in terrifyingly plausible scenarios.
Using her real name, Janet Tavakoli also wrote the financial murder mystery Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits, which Publisher's Weekly called "conspiracies within conspiracies, a fast-paced thriller."
Janet Tavakoli's background in chemical engineering and MBA in finance from the University of Chicago's Booth Graduate School of Business inform her meticulous research and attention to scientific detail, making her post-apocalyptic narratives chillingly realistic.