State of Decay

Revivors #1 / James Knapp

This was the first novel I ever sold, and also the first full length novel I ever completed. I didn't intend for the series to be a 'zombie' story, it's a science fiction story that involves using technology to reanimate bodies for war (in the book they're called 'revivors'), but the zombie craze was hitting its stride around that time and it definitely worked to my advantage.

State of Decay book cover

In a near-future America shaped by endless war, the dead can be technologically revived and put back to work as soldiers, laborers, and black-market commodities. FBI agent Nico Wachalowski has seen enough of revivors to want distance from them, but a trafficking case exposes something worse than exploitation: reanimated bodies engineered to kill on US soil, and a conspiracy that reaches far past the crime scene.

Reviews

"a high-adrenaline thriller"
Publishers Weekly
"sharp and his fast and furious plot twists keep the pages turning"
Publishers Weekly