Bøger af R Diskin Black

This world is far, far from all there is. Ethan Weiss knows that. At the age of ten, Ethan enjoys imagining the endless possibilities of infinite parallel universes--worlds with one moon or maybe three moons instead of two, or worlds where dinosaurs survived the Great Plague of the Middle Ages and continue to roam the land. Even worlds where his father is still alive. Ethan lives on Jane Street with his mother and grandfather in a neighborhood called West Bohemia. In Ethan's world, people fondly recall the first woman president, Eleanor Roosevelt. Peafowl roam everywhere, causing a nuisance. Marvelous winged flying machines called pterosoars dock at the mast of the Empire State Building. And a rare and wondrous yellow-naped Amazon parrot named Churchill squawks an ominous phrase: "Enslave the city! Enslave the city!" Where did Churchill learn this, and what exactly does it mean? As darkness approaches and evil spreads through the streets, Ethan finds himself smack in the middle of a war nobody saw coming, and the liberation of his city ultimately rests with him. While history unfolds around him, Ethan slowly comes to terms with the death of his father. The journey he takes proves greater than his personal grief as he learns that, like all fatherless boys, he can grow beyond his own heartbreaking loss.

On Tuesday, May 23, 2017, Jack Sullivan, an ordinary American teenager turned zombie scout, living in Hoboken, New Jersey, begins his diary. It is 4 months, 2 weeks, and 5 days since the first reported incident on the Friendship Bridge that connects Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. A zombie pandemic ravages the nation, extending around the globe. The one square mile town of Hoboken sits across the Hudson River from New York City, which is now reduced to a smoldering, howling zombie wasteland. Hoboken has become a barricaded fortress - an isolated city-state that may be the last bastion of human civilization in the zombie wilderness - teeming with a quarter million refugees. This is their story, told in Jack's words. As Jack writes he recalls the diary of another teenager compelled to write in a time of darkness - Anne Frank. He sees what is similar and what is different between his fate and that of Anne. But ultimately he draws strength from her words written 75 years before. Jack struggles to make sense of what has happened to his family and his world since the pandemic began. He wrestles with questions about what it means to be human and what it means to be zom. And he struggles to come of age during arguably the most difficult chapter in human history. More people die than live in 2017. That is the reality of what happens. Jack's diary chronicles their story. His words give voice to the multitudes left voiceless.