Autumn: Disintegration: Disintegration

by David Moody

Overview

Autumn: Disintegration is the penultimate chapter in David Moody's riveting horror series!

Forty days have passed since the world died. Billions of corpses walk the Earth. Everything is disintegrating. . . .

A group of eleven men and women have survived against the odds. On an almost daily basis, they attack the dead with brutal ferocity, tearing through them with utter contempt.

Somewhere nearby, out of sight and out of earshot, is another group that has adopted a completely different survival strategy. Where the others have used brutality and strength, these people have demonstrated subtlety, planning, and tactics.

A series of horrific events force the two groups together. Backed into a corner and surrounded by hundreds of thousands of corpses, they all know that their final battle with the dead is about to begin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312570019
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/22/2011
Series:	Autumn series , #4
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.58(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

From the UK, DAVID MOODY first self-published Hater on the internet in 2006, and without an agent, succeeded in selling the film rights for the novel to Mark Johnson (producer, The Chronicles of Narnia film series) and Guillermo Del Toro (director, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth). With the publication of a new series of Hater stories, Moody is poised to further his reputation as a writer of suspense-laced SF/horror, and "farther out" genre books of all description.

Editorial Reviews

David Moody is a master suspense builder.” —James Melzer, author of Escape: The Zombie Chronicles

“Moody is an inarguably talented author . . . one of the best horror authors of the new decade.” —Bloody-Disgusting.com

“As Moody's Autumn series continues, it's been about a month and a half since a virus wiped out most of humanity and turned the dead into zombies—although the author doesn't use either the word zombie or most of the familiar tropes. A small group of men and women are holed up in a block of flats, barricaded against the lumbering dead. But their uneasy safety doesn't last, and eventually they're forced out into the open, where, rather coincidentally, they meet up with another band of survivors who seem to have made themselves a much more secure stronghold, until clashing personalities inside the compound threaten to put them all at risk. This is a crisply written novel (although it's not as visceral as Moody's Hater series, which tackles the zombie theme from a more violent angle) with well-defined characters and a palpable sense of creeping terror: these undead might be sluggish and easy to kill, but they also seem to be a lot smarter than anyone realizes. The novel ends on a terrifying, tragic note, promising a suitably horrific finale for the series.” —David Pitt, Booklist

From the Publisher

The undead of Moody's popular "Autumn" series are unusual. They are never referred to as zombies, and they are not depicted as the evil, predatory cannibals so characteristic of zombie lit. Rather, these undead are diseased human beings who suffer from a debilitating condition. In the third installment, Purification, survivors from the previous book (Autumn: The City) are ensconced in an underground military base. The bodies amass on the surface, attracted by the commotion produced by the people underground. When the ventilation system becomes compromised by the milling crowd, soldiers are sent to fix the problem. The mission goes wrong, and the complex's inhabitants must run for their lives and find a new place to start rebuilding once again. In the fourth book, Disintegration, 40 days have passed since the outbreak, and the world's population has been decimated. The dead swarm everywhere, their decaying bodies deteriorating more each day. They have continued to become increasingly self-aware, violent, and regimented. A small group of survivors still endure through aggression and sheer ferocity. When their block of flats is breached by the dead, they flee and chance upon a hotel that appears to be an oasis of normality. Here, they encounter a second, very different group of people who have been using as survival tools intelligence and strategy instead of brute force.Despite Moody's new take on the traditional monster, his elaborate descriptions of decaying corpses, rotting entrails, and foul bodily fluids leave no doubt about the genre of his novels. After a while these accounts become both repetitive and revolting. Nonetheless, Purification is certain to appeal to series fans as well as lovers of urban-military-zombie crossovers like Z.A. Recht's "Morningstar Strain" series and David Wellington's Monster Island. In Disintegration, the best installment, Moody ventures into Lord of the Flies territory. The juxtaposition of the two groups of survivors and the consequent tension between them produces excruciating suspense not seen before in the series. The ending is utterly chilling and seems quite final, although Moody's website indicates Autumn: Aftermath is in the works and will conclude the series.

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