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    Martin Kier and The Dead
    Martin Kier and The Dead
    Martin Kier and The Dead
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    Martin Kier and The Dead

    By Eric S. Brown

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    Alone and stranded in a city full of hungry corpses, the bio-engineered, super soldier, Martin Kier fights on. He was created to be mankind's last, best hope against the dead. Somehow he must cut a path through the millions of dead blocking his escape and reach the complex where he was created because within its walls are all that remains of the human race.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEric S. Brown
    Release dateOct 20, 2014
    ISBN9781311895493
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      Martin Kier and The Dead - Eric S. Brown

      Martin Kier and The Dead

      By: Eric S. Brown

      Smashwords Edition

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      Martin Kier and The Dead

      Copyright © 2014 Eric S. Brown

      This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or unauthorized use of the material or photographs contained herein is prohibited without the express written permission of the author or artist.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      eBook Layout By: Jason Thacker

      Introduction By Jonathan Moon:

      My Love Affair With Rot

      Eric S. Brown has made a name for himself with his zombie fiction. He has earned fans, such as me, over the past few years with his uncompromising visceral style. The first book of his I read was his phenomenal collection of zombie novellas, Season of Rot. Each story was different from the one before and each possessed enough raw action and stomach turning twists to grab you by the shirt collar and pull you deep into the dark dead worlds of ESB’s imagination. It was zombie fiction the way it should be; violent, dark, original, and real. I remember pausing between stories and thinking to myself, Now, this is zombie fiction!

      So, once I fell in love with each and every story from A Season of Rot, I hunted down more of Eric S. Brown’s zombie fiction. His massive tome of short zombie stories (The Eric S Brown Zombie Omnibus) reads like a zombie fiction version of the Beatles White Album and features enough fresh takes on the rising dead that it may actually get a cadaver convulsing. He has proven with each new work that he is always growing as a writer unafraid to tackle new territory.

      Yet, he has always stretched the boundaries in zombie fiction. The five novellas in Season of Rot took place on land and sea, featured zombies and demons and civil war area soldiers, and introduced us to Martin Kier from the title novella of the collection. The story Season of Rot is a perfect example of ESB’s incredible talent. It twists and turns, dragging you forward through a bleak reality where the dead have risen and devoured all in their path. The story begins as a number of zombie stories do, with a group of survivors held up in a safe place and running low on essential supplies, but with the introduction of Martin Kier all that goes out the window. Martin Kier, a genetically enhanced clone with super strength and speed and enhanced senses, betrays the ESB’s inner comic book geek. He is a hero in a world without heroes. One of the things you don’t understand about ESB’s work, until you’ve read as much as I have, is the hope he instills in each story; sometimes fleeting, sometimes merely a glimmer, and other times

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