About the Book

In 1872, Captain William Trace encountered something impossible in the Pacific Northwest—the dead were walking. President Grant’s response created Unit 73, beginning a 150-year cover-up that would ultimately doom billions. This collection of interconnected stories spans from America’s frontier to Nazi concentration camps, from Libyan deserts to Arctic listening posts, revealing how governments worldwide conspired to hide the walker threat while preparing for selective survival.

Follow military officers bound by duty and silence, intelligence analysts who discovered too much, and civilians caught in the crossfire of humanity’s secret war. Witness Nazi scientists weaponizing the undead, Cold War operatives containing outbreaks, and the systematic suppression of whistleblowers who tried to warn the world. Each tale adds another piece to the horrifying puzzle of how bureaucratic secrecy and military protocol failed to prevent—and ultimately caused—the zombie apocalypse.

Set in the award-winning Dying of the Light universe, these “deleted scenes” expand the world beyond the main trilogy, showing that when civilization finally fell, it wasn’t a surprise to everyone. Some had been fighting this war for generations.