Drifters

"The survivors of the Omega Virus make a desperate effort to find the living. But the walking dead aren't done with them yet ... Helicopter pilot Vladimir Yurish is a man of his word. The last thing he wants is to leave the safety of the USS Nimitz and abandon his newly adopted son, Ben. Still, a promise is a promise, no matter how close to death it brings him ... Angie West has fought hard to keep strangers alive, but now it's time to tend to her own. Only, when she finds her family missing and their hideout burned and looted, she realizes the threat to her loved ones isn't just the undead--the living can do so much worse ... Halsey has done well for himself, given the circumstances. Thanks to his secluded ranch and precise shooting, the plague hasn't touched him--until a Black Hawk crashes on his property, bringing the war to his front door ... Amid the chaos of a destroyed civilization, the survivors encounter a new threat. And these new monsters can't be outrun--or outwitted ..."--

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.