Monster Island a zombie novel

It's one month after a global disaster. Manhattan has become Monster Island after a plague has turned all its denizens into shambling, rotting animated corpses, except for a couple who have kept their intelligence and also acquired psychic powers. When an expedition from Africa arrives, composed of...

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Main Author: Wellington, David
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Thunder's Mouth Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.
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Summary:It's one month after a global disaster. Manhattan has become Monster Island after a plague has turned all its denizens into shambling, rotting animated corpses, except for a couple who have kept their intelligence and also acquired psychic powers. When an expedition from Africa arrives, composed of teenage girl-soldiers and a former U.N. weapons inspector, the zombie masters mobilize their forces to kill or eat the living humans.
Item Description:"...the first volume in a trilogy, to be followed by Monster nation and Monster planet"--P. 4 of cover.
Physical Description:282 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:1560258500 : PAP
Author Notes:David Wellington was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1971. He attended Penn State and received there an MFA in creative writing. He works as an archivist for the United Nations in New York City.

In 2003 he began work on the website www.monsternovel.com, where his novel Monster Island was serialized on-line over the course of five months and quickly became an internet cult phenomenon. Two sequels to Monster Island have since also been serialized in the same fashion.