The Return Man
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4.5 • 30 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
The outbreak tore the U.S. in two. The east remains a safe haven. The west has become a ravaged wilderness. They call it the Evacuated States. It is here that Henry Marco makes his living. Hired by grieving relatives, he tracks down the dead and delivers peace.
Now Homeland Security wants Marco for a mission unlike any other. He must return to California, where the apocalypse began. Where a secret is hidden. And where his own tragic past waits to punish him again.
But in the wastelands of America, you never know who -- or what -- is watching you.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Zito's debut is thrilling, melancholy, and stomach-churningly gory. In the desolate heat and haunting emptiness of the zombie-infested American Southwest, ex-neurologist Henry Marco is hired by the living to "return" their undead loved ones, a euphemism for blowing their brains out. Marco also yearns to find and "return" his own wife. Hired by the Department of Homeland Security to track down a scientist who may have developed a cure, Marco embarks on a journey across the desert, encountering packs of shuffling, flesh-chewing zombies; sadistic gangs of bikers; and a Chinese assassin with whom he inadvertently teams up. Zito amps up the action with a nightmarish showdown in the bowels of an abandoned prison and viscerally unbearable descriptions of human mutilations. The zombies are pretty standard and Marco's philosophical ruminations are sometimes both redundant and expository, but taken as a whole, this is a sturdy and crowd-pleasing novel that squarely hits its target.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful!
Fantastic, well written book on a Zombie outbreak. Great story! You won't be disappointed zombie fans!
Decent book
Loved the book's concept. Didn't love the authors politics. As far as the writing involved, he was good at describing the small details but rather poor when describing the larger ones.
Overall a good read, didn't care for the leftist politics which at times seemed almost too thick to get through. Not to mention all the British spellings used completely ruin the immersion factor. Tyre, kerb, etc... For a book set in the American southwest. Comes off as a bit pretentious.
Outstanding book
A great new way to look at a situation of a zombie apocalypse. Can't wait till other books come out. You the man Zito