Recht, Z. A

The Morningstar Strain has decimated the Earth's human population and left the rest as ravening zombies. For the survivors, it is the beginning of their new, terrifying lives. Sawyer, a devious agent of the Reunited States of America, believes that one of the survivors, Dr. Anna Demilio, already possesses the cure, and will stop at nothing--even the killing of non-infected humans--to find her and take it for his own.

"The end begins with an unprecedented viral outbreak: Morningstar. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, violent behavior...and a one hundred percent mortality rate. But the end is only the beginning: The victims return from death to walk the earth. When a massive military operation fails to contain the plague ofthe living dead, it escalates into a worldwide pandemic. Now, a single law of nature dominates the global landscape: Live or die, kill or be killed. On one side of the world, thousands of miles from home, a battle-hardened general surveys the remnants of his command: a young medic, a veteran photographer, a brash private, and dozens of refugees--all are his responsibility. While in the United States, an army colonel discovers the darker side of Morningstar and collaborates with a well-known journalist to leak the information to the public...."--P. [4] of cover.

Billions are infected with the Morningstar virus, causing the world's population to be overrun with zombies, and Francis Sherman and Anna Demilio are amongst the survivors looking for a vaccine, but to find it, they must travel across a countryside rampant with the infected and lawless survivors.