THE END BEGINS WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED VIRAL OUTBREAK:Morningstar. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, violent behavior...and a one hundred percent mortality rate.BUT THE END IS ONLY THE BEGINNING:The victims return from death to walk the earth. When a massive military operation fails to contain the plague of the living dead, it escalates into a worldwide pandemic.NOW, A SINGLE LAW OF NATURE DOMINATES THE GLOBAL LANDSCAPE:Live or die, kill or be killed. On one side of the world, thousands of miles from home, a battle-hardened general surveys the remnants of his command: a young medic, a veteran photographer, a brash private, and dozens of refugees -- all are his responsibility. While in the United States, an army colonel discovers the darker side of Morningstar and collaborates with a well-known journalist to leak the information to the public....