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Fresh Pick / August 29, 2012

July 2012 On Sale: July 10, 2012 336 pages ISBN: 0307455173 EAN: 9780307455178 Paperback $15.00  Add to Wish List Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller Buy at Amazon.com Science Fiction thriller Zone One by Colson Whitehead A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies. Zone One unfolds over three surreal days in which Spitz is occupied with the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD), and the impossible task of coming to terms with a fallen world. And then things start to go terribly wrong… At once a chilling horror story and a literary novel by a contemporary master, Zone One is a dazzling portrait of modern civilization in all its wretched, shambling glory. Previous Picks