{"product_id":"zone-one-a-novel","title":"Zone One: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel  a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected  the living and the living dead.  Now the plague is receding  and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Streetaka Zone Onebut pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected  teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous varietythe malfunctioning stragglers  who exist in a catatonic state  transfixed by their former lives.  Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams working in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitzs desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative  the novel unfolds over three surreal days  as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal  the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder  and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world.  And then things start to go wrong.  Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral  Zone One brilliantly subverts the genres conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946814894133,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385528078","price":28.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385528078.jpg?v=1769967600","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/zone-one-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}