Dead City

Jon Gilligan is the only living man in a city of the undead. It's his job to maintain order between the factions of walking corpses and disembodied spirits. The workload has been driving him a little insane, leading him to take on the persona of a noir detective. He narrates his adventures, casting himself as a hero to all those under his watch. But soon, it's time for him to be a hero for real. Teaming up with a ghost and a woman they both love outside the walls, it's up to the three of them to save Dead City from itself.

A tween takes on undead New Yorkers in this paranormal action-adventure that "breathes new life into the zombie genre" (Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games). Most kids have enough to deal with between school, homework, extracurricular activities, and friends, but Molly Bigelow isn't your typical tween. By day, Molly attends MIST-the Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology-but it's what she's learning outside of school that sets her apart from her classmates. Molly is a zombie hunter, just like her mother. This, however, is news to Molly. Now she must come to terms with not only the idea that zombies exist, but also that they're everywhere, and it's her job to help police them and keep the peace. Sure, she'd like to be a regular kid, but "regular" just isn't possible when it turns out the most revered (or feared, depending on your perspective) zombie hunter in the history of New York City is your mother. It seems Molly's got some legendary footsteps to follow...

One drug saved the world. Now, the same drug threatens to destroy it. Rising star Ian Keys has climbed to the top rungs of pharma giant Hemisphere creator of Necrophage, the drug that paused the necrotic outbreak and allowed the infected to live among us. Ians new position gives him access to dangerous secrets that could ruin the company. When ominous hints from an anonymous insider set him on the hunt for the biggest secret of all, he discovers that the "cure" the company gave the world might not have been a cure at all. Now men are watching Ians house. Theyre following his wife wherever she goes. When hes called to CEO Archibald Burgesss office, hes taken by armed guards then plied with vague threats. What would happen if Necrophage failed? Burgess asks. What would become of our society if the disease were allowed to progress again and all of our well-behaved patients slowly turned feral? Theres only one person Ian can take his case to: reporter Alice Frank, whos been trying to blow the whistle on Hemisphere for years. But is there time to save whats left of the world or has the inevitable slide back into chaos already begun? "I loved everything about this book. Great concept (Im a pharmacist so I geek out when my sci-fi crosses over into RX land). I love the way it ended...but I want more! Im definitely a fan of this series and cant wait for the next book." -- PharmDiva "Wow. Can't say I've ever read anything like this before, but Platt and Truant didn't disappoint! While I found the characters' reactions to be quite plausible, given the scenario, I still had no idea which way it was going to turn." -- Ayme Bahrami

Molly is ready for more nonstop, undead action in this follow-up to Dead City, which Kirkus Reviews described as "a fast-paced read for those who like their zombies with just a little fright." When Molly Bigelow discovered that zombies shared New York with humans, she didn't think life could get more shocking. Then she learned that her mother was once one of the greatest zombie killers ever-and she discovered that her dead mother is not technically dead after all (although she isn't alive, either). Molly's efforts to keep these secrets and to help her Omega team track down the identity of the original thirteen zombies will take her from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade to New Year's Eve in Times Square. Her loyalties to friends and family will be put to the test. And her life will be changed in ways she never could have imagined.

Molly's up against the undead-and the fate of Manhattan is in her hands-in the third and final book of the Dead City trilogy, which Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins says "breathes new life into the zombie genre." Molly and the Omegas fight to contain the storm unleashed by Operation Blue Moon. As they do, Molly's personal life is thrown into turmoil when she discovers that one of her closest friends has joined the ranks of the undead, a development that threatens the Omegas as well as Molly's relationship with her mother. As Molly and her friends battle the Dead Squad (a special NYPD task force made up entirely of zombies), they discover that the world's largest gold reserve is kept in a vault eighty feet below the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. They find a photograph of the vault's construction in the 1920s and realize that the construction crew was led by none other than the leader of the undead, Marek Blackwell. Could this explain the source of all his money? And if so, what is he planning to do with it? Is he rebuilding Dead City... or is he building an undead army?

The boy who became Bobby Baltimore. Born last and long after his siblings, Rupert Haydock always was a Mama's Boy. His Daddy used to taunt him for it, even though he did all he could to live up to his Dad's high standards for toughness. But when his mother accidentally contracts the mysterious and dreaded Rip Daddy disease through a cut on her hand, thanks to her husband's carelessness, Rupert spends every minute at her bedside, taking care of her. At first, he prays she'll recover. But then her agony grows and her flesh starts to rot -- until she no longer resembles the mother he once knew. He's not sure if the disease has completely ravaged her mind, or if she's still trapped deep inside her rapidly decaying body. End her suffering or stay with her to the horrific end -- what would any Mama's Boy do? Empty Nest is a stand-alone story told inside the universe of Platt & Truant's Dead World Trilogy, an intelligent, big pharma corporate espionage and genetic engineering exploration of the zombie subgenre.