Cattle

The Dead Have Awakened



It is ten years after the global apocalypse. The Phage, the zombie virus that brought the world to its knees, has mutated, restoring the minds of its undead victims: their personalities, their memories... even their dreams. The living dead are no longer the mindless monsters that drove mankind to the brink of extinction.



But they still possess their insatiable hunger for human flesh.



Kept Like Animals



Brent Scarborough is a veteran survivor. He has been dodging the undead for nearly a decade. When he learns there is a city controlled and populated by living human beings, a place they call Home, he and his companion, Harold Killian, head immediately for this refuge of the living.



But they are captured on the last leg of their journey. Harold is killed, and Brent is imprisoned in a terrible zombie gulag, a nightmarish facility where the living are kept like animals and forced to breed for their hungry zombie masters.



Refusing to be defeated, Brent forges alliances with his desperate fellow inmates. His only goal is escape, but bearing down on the facility is a herd of mindless chompers, zombies who have not yet reawakened, and it is the largest and most destructive herd the living and dead have ever seen!



Set ten years after the events in the popular zombie novel Mort, Cattle is a no-holds-barred action horror novel that is as original as it is fearless. Author Joseph Duncan (who formerly wrote under the pen name Rod Redux) has pulled out all the stops in his latest post-apocalyptic novel.



Readers Rave About the Fiction of Joseph Duncan:

”Beyond my expectations”…”dark, deadly, funny”… “reminds me of Stephen King”…”this author has tremendous talent and knows how to weave a great tale”…”weird as hell but very good…”I laughed, I cried, and I loved the story’s originality”…”OMG”…”Wow, just wow”



What The Critics Have To Say:

“Every once in a while, a book or film comes along that changes your mindset about a genre in such a way that it can never be switched back to its original setting. This is what happened to me with Mort.”—uwanted2c.com… “House of Dead Trees is a dark and violent book but never to the point of gratuitous violence for the sake of another splatter. It is a far too clever a tale for such a cheap trick.”—bricksofthedead.com… “Mort was an unexpected surprise… I loved the individuality of each of the characters and how they played off each other... The whole story captured my imagination...Would I recommend Mort? My answer would be, yes."—livingdeadmedia.com