"The zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, pitting the living against the dead. Caught in the mass exodus, Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But the Walkers are multiplying. Dogged by their feral hunger for flesh and crippled by fear, Lilly relies on the protection of good Samaritans by seeking refuge in a walled-in town once known as Woodbury"--Provided by publisher.
Having been accepted into the Community on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., Rick and his group discover that there are problems as well as beneifits to being safe behind the walls of a secure area.
Rick Grimes and company try to establish a regular routine of daily life in the prison complex now that the zombies are more or less out of the way. With danger not constantly on their minds, however, relationships in the dysfunctional group start to undergo some radical changes.
Police Officer Rick Grimes continues to fight for human survival, along with his team of survivors, while a zombie infestation devastates society outside of the walls of the house they are struggling to defend.
"In The Walking Dead universe, there is no greater villain than The Governor. The despot who runs the walled-off town of Woodbury, he has his own sick sense of justice: whether it's forcing prisoners to battle zombies in an arena for the townspeople's amusement, or chopping off the appendages of those who cross him. Now for the first time, fans of The Walking Dead will finally understand what drove Philip Blake to become - The Governor." -- Back cover.
Daniel Kilgore, an unsaintly priest, is transformed into the character, Haunt, when his body is fused with the ghost of his dead secret-agent brother, Kurt, and sets out to find the truth about his brother's murder.
