Mogadishu of the Dead

When the zombie apocalypse came, Britain locked its borders against a terrorist threat — and became the last surviving bastion of civilization. Alpha team is tasked with crossing the Atlantic on the world's last operational supercarrier and inserting into the dead continent's largest city to find a rumored vaccine before humanity loses the numbers game. The second Arisen novel is an extended special operations nightmare: everything goes wrong immediately, and the city holds the dead in numbers that dwarf anything the team has encountered.

R.C. Bray narrates Mogadishu of the Dead with the controlled urgency that characterizes his best work in the survival thriller genre. His rendering of the tactical problem — a small team on foot in a city of three million reanimated — gives the horror a concrete, operational dimension that distinguishes this series from supernatural zombie fiction. At just over four hours, this is a compact and relentless entry that moves at the pace its premise demands.