Where Humanity Holds Ground.

One Catastrophe. One Mission. Hold Your Ground.

A Popular

Bingeable

Character-Driven

Apocalypse

Thriller

Influenced by Terrifying True Events.

You Will Never See Zombie Drugs the Same Way!

“Great characters and believable action”
“Speaking as a cynical old soldier and nitpicking fool, all I can say about this book is it rocks hard and I could not wait to see the sequel. Most of these types of books are boring and derivative – not this one.”—Amazon reviewer Michael L.

Coastal Wilmington, North Carolina, stands in the crosshairs. The economy struggles. A flu pandemic spreads. Authorities assert crazies popping up all over town are on the newest zombie street drug. But residents say they are straight-up zombies, the alive kind—faster, more violent, and just plain weirder than the movies.

For former Staff Sergeant Peter Sullivan, it’s a good thing. War is what he does best. Life is what he sucks at. But for PhD candidate Phebe Marcelino, it’s a descent into kill-or-be-killed.

Veteran Army Rangers and Marines turned cops face an apocalypse gone live. The rules are gone, the hostiles keep changing, and for the first time, their own government may be hunting them. Welcome to the war they were never meant to survive.

For Phebe, her survival instinct and intelligence are all she’s got. You never know what you’re made of until tested!

A grounded yet explosive speculative thriller, the story reframes a “zombie” outbreak through the plausible lens of real‑world zombie drug phenomena. This unsettling immediacy distinguishes it from traditional genre entries.

Anchoring the chaos in Coastal Wilmington, North Carolina lends the narrative both geographic specificity and a distinctly cinematic scale.

Through a rare but restrained multi‑POV approach, the story engages social and cultural fault lines in a tumultuous era, exploring how the events of Book One could plausibly cascade into an apocalypse—or even an extinction‑level outcome—later in the series.

Most striking is the dual‑protagonist structure. Phebe Marcelino’s scientific skepticism, unraveling in real time, provides an intelligent emotional entry point into the catastrophe. In contrast, former Staff Sergeant Peter Sullivan and his veteran cohort bring tactical authenticity and sharply edged military humor. The tension between academic rationalism and combat‑hardened pragmatism forms a narrative engine particularly well suited to episodic bingeable storytelling.

The author’s background in counterterrorism intelligence and pattern analysis is evident in the behavioral realism of mass panic, civic breakdown, and Pentagon strategic response. Combined with Jones’s academic grounding in anthropology and archaeology, the narrative feels rigorously researched, structurally disciplined, and disturbingly plausible—especially given its roots in documented events.

“This one goes in the reread pile!”
“Love this book. It puts a new spin on zombie fiction, and quite frankly scared the crap out of me, since out of all the zombie books I’ve read this one seems like it could really happen! The storyline, humor, and action helped keep me reading instead of heading out to buy a bunker.”—Amazon reviewer Carolyn.