


Benny has been carrying a grudge against Tom since the day of the Fall, fourteen years ago. Benny lives with his half-brother Tom in a gated community, only this particularly community is gated to keep the zombies out. Only, if they don’t find a job, food rations will be decreased by half, and we all know how teens like to eat. It opens in a small town of 28 thousand, with fifteen year-old Benny and his best friend Lou Chong forced to look for jobs, the bane of countless teenagers during countless summers. I love me some apocalypse fiction, and when Trudi recommended this series, I knew I had to give it a go.

At worst, they’re Cracker Jacks, caramel popcorn fun with a prize at the end. The genre is erroneously underrated the best zombie and apocalypse fiction is about wrestling with humanity, ethics and survival, with some hair-raising action to leaven the philosophy. I know, zombies, right? So passe, so early century, so urban fiction–so yawn for so many people. Visit him at and on Twitter and Facebook.Recommended to Carol by: Trudi Stafford Read July 2012 ★ ★ ★ ★ He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including the X-Files books, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, Hardboiled Horror, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, and others. Several of his works are in development for film and TV, including V Wars, which is a Netflix original series. His works include the Joe Ledger thrillers, Glimpse, the Rot & Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, The X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate, Mars One, and many others. He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and adventure and he writes for adults, teens, and middle grade. This boxed set contains paperback editions of the complete series: Rot & Ruin, Dust & Decay, Flesh & Bone, Fire & Ash, and Bits & Pieces.Ībout the Author Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer. What he discovers is a vocation that will teach him what it really means to be human. He expects a dull job, whacking zoms for cash. Benny isn't interested in the family business, but he reluctantly agrees to train as a zombie killer with his big brother Tom. In the zombie-infested world Benny has grown up in, teens must work once they turn fifteen. All five books in the action-packed zombie series Booklist calls "an impressive mix of meaning and mayhem" are now available in one paperback boxed set. Book Synopsis In the Rot & Ruin, it's a matter of death and life.
