Typhoon

Robert Kirkmans: The Walking Dead

Wesley Chu

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English

SKYBOUND BOOKS
01 November 2020

Horror & ghost stories; Apocalyptic; Undead; Zombies Horror; Other Film, TV & Media

In this riveting, “gory, and action-packed” (Jonathan Maberry) survival thriller, set in the expansive world of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series, three people from different walks of life in China must join forces against the typhoon of undead as chaos sweeps over Asia.

In the aftermath of the zombie virus outbreak, what remains of the Chinese government has estimated that one billion walkers (called jiangshi) are currently roaming through the country. Across this dramatic landscape, large groups of survivors have clustered together for safety in villages and towns that have been built vertically as a means of protection against the unceasing wave of jiangshi.

Before this devastation, Zhu was one of the millions of poor farmers who left their rural roots for the promise of consistent employment in one of China’s booming factory towns. Elena was an American teaching English in China while on a gap year before beginning law school. Hengyen was a grizzled military officer of some renown, and a passionate believer in his nation’s ability to surmount any obstacle.

But with the settlement’s 3,000 mouths to feed and the scavengers having to travel further and further in search of food, Zhu ends up at his home village, where he is shocked to find survivors. Does he force them to join the settlement or keep their existence a secret?

Meanwhile, Hengyen is tasked with the impossible: fortifying the Beacon against a 100,000-strong “typhoon” of walkers header their way. Even though he realizes that the Beacon hardly stands a chance, Hengyen is a believer and will stand with his compatriots to the very last, bringing him into conflict with Zhu, who intends to flee the path of the typhoon and make for the safety of China’s dramatic mountain ranges before it’s too late.

Given “two decaying thumbs up,” (Jonathan Mayberry, author of Rot & Ruin), this book is sure to get your heart racing and leave you wanting more!

By: Wesley Chu
Imprint: SKYBOUND BOOKS
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 365g
ISBN: 9781982117818
ISBN 10: 1982117818
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wesley Chu won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His debut novel, The Lives of Tao, earned him a Young Adult Library Services Association Alex Award and a Science Fiction Goodreads Choice Award Top 10 slot. He is also the coauthor of the Eldest Curses series with Cassandra Clare, the first book of which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Reviews for Typhoon (Robert Kirkmans: The Walking Dead)

Typhoon is a trans-Pacific arrow through my heart. -Weston Ochse, Bram Stoker award-winning author of SEAL Team 666 and Grunt Life After the dead start walking, the living have to hold onto each other and run, and run, and keep running. Typhoon knows this, and never stops. There's teeth around every corner, in every shadow, and-this is the Walking Dead, after all-not everyone lives. You won't want this novel to end. -Stephen Graham Jones, Bram Stoker award-winning author of Mapping the Interior and Mongrels With THE WALKING DEAD: TYPHOON, Wesley Chu takes a big damn bite out of the zombie genre. It's gory and action-packed but built around a core of characters you genuinely care about. Two decaying thumbs up! -Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling author of Rot & Ruin and V-Wars