Publisher's Synopsis
Charlie Collins has always had a severe allergy to responsibility. He built his life on the belief that this was as good as it could get and he found comfort in routine and apathy. He works a dead-end job, but it pays well enough. He lives in an apartment that could best be described as a dump, but he believes it's better than living in his van. His friends mostly exist on X-Box live, which is fine with him because he is a man who likes to be as unattached to the real world as possible. A self-proclaimed slacker and a smartass who seems incapable of taking the world in general seriously. Charlie isn't a fan of anything that isn't work, pizza, or X-Box. But today his routine world has been shattered by a shambling horde of zombie tourists who decided to drop by for a bite and hang around for an apocalypse that very few people were prepared for.Zombies had been a hobby of Charlie. Movies, books, video games, and comics have all been consumed in his pursuit of undead knowledge, and now that knowledge will be put to the test, forthe picturesque mountains of northeast Tennessee have been turned into a nightmare land where the dead are hunting the elusive all you can eat brain buffet. Charlie is thrown into a world where one wrong move could mean his demise. However, even worse than the threat of death, he finds that he is now responsible for the lives of a group of survivors.He has a plan, but he's not sure if it's a good one. Safety lies in Johnson City, of that he's sure. Now, all he needs to do is survive the trip. What would have taken less than a half hour any other day is eating up more and more of the clock today. With the sun dipping dangerously close to the horizon, Charlie knows that his group will never survive a night on the road. In the dark, the dead will use their ninja skills to sneak up, surround, and eat them all. His whole life he has heard how he wouldn't amount to much in this world. The survivors who are now following him had better hope his high school guidance counselors were wrong.
