This is the 2nd in McKinney's trilogy of zombie novels. Whereas the first was a fairly simple survival story about a Houston cop trying to get home this one is on a much larger scale.The infection has spread and spread fast. Pretty much overnight the US has fallen to the hordes. The story follows several groups of people, a very cool retired US Marshal along with the other residents of his old peoples home and an escaped con he's stuck with. A party bus full of rich kids and porn stars, an immune redneck and the doctor trying to synthesize a cure, a party of escapees from the original outbreak led by an insane cop and finally 'The Family', a group of religious nuts led by the very mad Jasper Sewell.
The story tracks all the groups journeys across the country until they arrive at the grasslands camp that The Family have set up and are running. It seems like a haven but it's not long before Jasper's mania becomes noticeable and everything goes profoundly wrong.
I really enjoyed this book. Zombie novels are generally fairly crappy affairs but this one had a bit of scope and a vision that raised it's head up. There were chunks of it that I just didn't like - some of The Family stuff and Jasper in particular was just too far fetched - but on the whole it seemed like a nice run.
McKinney has a very personable writing style and I'm looking forward to tackling the third one.
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