~~Polish your shotgun, sharpen your machete, and get ready for the first blood-splattered installment in the Mortuous 28 series by International Bestselling and Global Book Award-winning author Kevin W. K. Moore. This unrelenting, nightmarish odyssey is seething with gore, violence, vile human behaviour, and hordes of festering, undead monsters. Ashes of Civilization is sure to satisfy your lust for gut-wrenching carnage and bloodcurdling despair.
Following the journey of Thaddeus Stormbreaker, a hardened Finnish-Canadian immigrant forged by his survivalist father and Indigenous mentor to thrive beyond the reaches of civilization, the Mortuous 28 series takes you on a blood-soaked, action-packed journey across a North American hellscape.
A decade of pandemics, economic collapse, and global conflict has left the world order in ruin. Lines in the dirt have been redrawn, militaries are exhausted, and the once-dominant superpowers no longer have the might to protect and police the world.
Just as civilization is regaining its footing and the ashes of World War III have only just settled, a viral outbreak, its origins shrouded in mystery, tears through the demilitarized zone in Russia's Chukchi Peninsula. Is it a biological weapon of a rejuvenated war effort, or nature's retaliation against the scourge of humankind?
Dubbed Mortuous 28, the viral contagion sweeps across the globe like wildfire, transforming everything with a heartbeat into ravenous, flesh-eating beasts. As North America devolves faster than the infection can spread, chaos reigns, and humans lose their humanity to self-preservation. Violence becomes the new currency of survival, and the living are often more dangerous than the undead.
With his machete, rifle, and souped-up camper van, Thaddeus is forced to decide his fate and survive the impossible: crossing a continental wasteland to escape the flesh-eating monsters, save a long-lost love, and reach an unsullied Mexico. In this blood-slicked and brain-splattered new world, Thaddeus Stormbreaker will soon learn that men with power are as insatiable as the zombified beasts.
The sixth great extinction is upon us. Time is running out. Can a cure be found? Or has humankind's time on earth come to an end?
