Zone one

Description:

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.

subjects: Zombies,  Virus diseases,  Fiction,  New York Times bestseller,  nyt:hardcover_fiction=2011-10-29,  Survival,  Viruses,  Fiction, horror,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  New York Times reviewed,  Large type books,  Epidemics

Places: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.),  New York (State),  New York,  Manhattan