When the dead begin to rise and consume the living, humanity doesn't stand a chance. Civilization crumbles and falls within days... When the hungry dead outnumber the living, survivors emerge in this nightmarish new world. Traumatized, terrified, and lost, they begin to band together in an attempt to survive. But some of them are not what they seem to be... Sergeant Thomas Rowland is a battle-weary soldier attempting to keep a promise to a fallen comrade and guide a rag-tag group of survivors to safety. Arlen Black is a convicted serial killer, a man of breathtaking guile and violence. He has an agenda all of his own, one that makes him even more dangerous than the living dead...