Apocalypse of the Dead

428 Pages·2016·1.59 MB·English

by  McKinney Joe

APOCALYPSE of the DEAD
APOCALYPSE of the DEAD
JOE MCKINNEY
PINNACLE BOOKS
KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP.
www.kensingtonbooks.com
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For Clay McKinney and David Snell.
Thanks for making it happen.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We’re about to take a long walk together through the
wasteland, but before we get started I want to take a moment to thank a few
people who deserve a lot more than the mere mention I’m about to give them.
No book is ever a solo journey, and this one was no exception. These kind folks
helped me get from beginning to end:
Jacob Kier, David Snell, Arthur Casas, Jim Donovan, Gary
Goldstein, Lisa Morton, David Wellington, Brian Keene, Kevin Luzius, Amy
Grech, Bruce Boston, Marge Simon, Mitchel Whitington, Michelle McCrary,
Tobey Crockett, Mark Onspaugh, Mark Kolodziejski, Michael McCarty, Lee
Thomas, Charlie Delgado, Michael Starnes, Adam Zeldes, Donald Strader,
Gabrielle Faust, Shawn and Grady Hartman, Joe and Jennifer McKinney,
Alexander Devora, Tiffany and Clay McKinney, Thomas McAuley, Beckie
Ugolini, Caren Creech, Joel Sutherland, Harry Shannon, Kim Paffenroth, Matt
Staggs, Angie Hawkes, Chris Fulbright, Greg Lamberson, Corey Mitchell,
Michelle McKee, Ray Castillo, A. Lee Martinez, John Picacio, Sanford Allen,
Matt Louis, Norman Rubenstein, Richard Dean Starr, Michelle Mondo, David
Pruitt, Steven Wedel, John Joseph Adams, Nate Kenyon, Bev Vincent, Brian
Freeman, Louise Bohmer, Weston Ochse, Judy Comeau, Graeme Flory, Fran
Fiel, and Gene O’Neill.
And, as always, to my lovely wife, Kristina, and my daughters,
Elena and Brenna, who make this a world worth living in.
They asked him, then, whether to live or die was a matter of his own
sovereign will and pleasure. He answered, certainly. In a word, it was
Queequeg’s conceit, that if a man made up his mind to live, mere sickness
could not kill him: nothing but a whale, or a gale, or some violent,
ungovernable, unintelligent destroyer of that sort.
—HERMAN MELVILLE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 31
CHAPTER 32
CHAPTER 33
CHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 35
CHAPTER 36