Coastal Wilmington, North Carolina stands at the crosshairs. The economy struggles. A flu pandemic spreads. Authorities claim crazies popping up all over town are on a new designer street drug worse than flakka. But everyone's calling them "zombies" - the alive kind that runs and bites but feels no pain.
A titan cast of war vets and young adult civilians experience their world of normalcy infiltrated. Suspicion grows the drug is a government cover story for something much worse. The clock ticks over five days until the SHTF.
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 doctoral candidate Phebe Marcelino, it's a descent into kill or be killed.
Veteran US Army Airborne Rangers, a wounded warrior Delta sniper, and Marines-turned-cops band together. The combat is like nothing they have seen before. And their own military never tried to kill them. Only their training and teamwork can get them out of the hot zone.
For Phebe, her survival instinct is all she has.
You never know what you're made of until tested. EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT, the love child of
Contagion and
28 Weeks Later meet
Black Hawk Down at a Monty Python festival. Concept based on the true-life events of 2012's 'bath salts zombie apocalypse.' Warning: A sense of humor is required - military dark humor and guy banter.