Brian Keene

From the Bram Stoker Award-winning author comes this thriller about a man who embarks on a cross-country trip to save his son after a plague turns nearly all of America's population into zombies. Original.

The Rising

Original publication and copyright date: 2003.

Dweedle 

Cheesy dialogue, meh writing, but an epic ending battle scene make this kind of worth it

Casey W. 

I really liked the fact that the zombies could talk and retained some level of intelligence. That made it starkly different from the slow, dumb zombies you typically encounter.