Title: Zone one : a novel /
Authors: Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Zombies Fiction; Virus diseases Fiction; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Fiction.
Abstract: Mark Spitz and his squad of three "sweepers" move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as "stragglers": zombies who have bypassed the cannibalistic urges of their more lethal fellows in favor of a hollow-eyed, eerily nostalgic repetition of some mundane act.