In less than twenty-four hours a vicious and virulent disease destroys virtually all of the population. Billions are killed. Thousands die every second.
There are no symptoms and no warnings. Within moments of infection each victim suffers a violent and agonizing death. Only a handful of survivors remain. By the end of the first day those survivors wish they were dead.
Then the disease strikes again, and all hell breaks loose. The dead are walking, and the living must adapt or die.
Collected here are all five AUTUMN novels, charting the terrifying breakdown of society and the frantic attempts of the survivors to last one more day...
Are we entering mankind's final days? In the aftermath of the disease, will the last survivors destroy each other, or will the dead destroy them all?
Contains AUTUMN, AUTUMN: THE CITY, AUTUMN: PURIFICATION, AUTUMN: DISINTEGRATION and AUTUMN: AFTERMATH.
David Moody first released Hater in 2006, and without an agent, succeeded in selling the film rights for the novel to Mark Johnson (producer, Breaking Bad) and Guillermo Del Toro (director, The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth). Moody's seminal zombie novel Autumn was made into a movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carradine. He has an unhealthy fascination with the end of the world and likes to write books about ordinary folks going through absolute hell. With the publication of continuing Hater and Autumn stories, Moody has cemented his reputation as a writer of suspense-laced SF/horror, and "farther out" genre books of all description.
It is cliched to say that David Moody writes "page turners" but he does. I've bought and read some of his books in just a couple of days as I find I just need to know how they face the next challenge, how they cope with just surviving what most of us could only stand frozen in fear and also how the charactors interact with eact other. Although you could read each book as a stand alone story I wouldn't and didn't. I bought the first book and then knowing I'd just end up reading the whole series I bought the full set as one as it worked out cheaper.
Although the zombie/dystopian/plague etc genre is a subject almost bled dry he sill manages to make so much of it new and unique. His characters aren't supermen/women they're nice, nasty, selfish, generous, old, young etc so basically they're just like us and very ordinary they just woke up one day and the sh*t has hit the fan and they have to fight to survive what would freeze most of us in fear.
I won't spoil it but there was something nagging at me through all 5 of these books about the behaviour of the zombies/undead whatever you want to call them, and then just as I was thinking he had let me down and there was a gaping flaw in his charaterisation of them but then came the "tunnel" scene and for me personally it was the jaw dropping moment, the "OF COURSE" moment which explained why the undead behaved the way they did. You may not even know what it was about their behaviour that had me thinking this way but hopefully if you too read this series and have that niggling thought in the back of your mind, trust me you get the answer.