My health class teacher says it was disease, malnutrition, and bad water that killed most of the others. My history teacher said the outbreak destroyed what he called “the infrastructure.” Which is police and government and hospitals and like that. My teachers say that the dead killed enough people for everything to fall apart. And after the power grids failed, there was no way to report it.Įxcept for the sound the dead make. After that there were no more news reports. They used to have something called the “Internet.” Before that went down, the estimates of the global death toll were at three billion and climbing. And over the next few days and weeks, nearly everybody died. My mom says that probably a billion people died on First Night. The year I was born, the United States Census Bureau estimated that there were 6,922,000,000 people alive on planet Earth. No one could say that it wasn’t really happening, or even if it was, it wasn’t happening here. That was the point at which no one could ignore the problem. There was a day the survivors call First Night. By the time people realized that there was a problem, the problem was biting them. I was born right around the time the world died. Visit him at and on Twitter and Facebook.Bits & Pieces FROM NIX’S JOURNAL ON FIRST NIGHT (PRIOR TO ROT & RUIN) 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 and Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, The X-Files Origins: Devils 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. About the Author Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer. This boxed set contains paperback editions of the complete series: Rot and Ruin, Dust and Decay, Flesh and Bone, Fire and Ash, and Bits and Pieces. 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 isnt 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 and Ruin, its a matter of death and life.

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