Fiend

Breaking Bad meets The Walking Dead in this heartbreaking, darkly funny debut that pits a meth junkie against the zombie apocalypse.

When Chase sees the little girl in umbrella-print socks disemboweling the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As someone who's been smoking meth every day for as long as he can remember, he's no stranger to such horrifying drug-fueled hallucinations. But as he and his fellow junkies soon discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived. And with Chase's life already destroyed beyond all hope of redemption, Armageddon might actually be an opportunity--a last chance to hit restart, win back the love of his life, and become the person he once dreamed of being.
Propelled by a blistering first-person voice and featuring a powerfully compelling antihero, Fiend is at once a brilliant portrait of addiction, a pitch-black comedy, and the darkest, most twisted love story you've ever read--not to mention one hell of a zombie novel.

Remarkable voice: Fiend is propelled by a gritty, lyrical, blackly funny voice that is at once wholly original and reminiscent of Chuck Palahniuk, Josh Bazell, and Charlie Huston.

Not just a zombie novel: Yes, this has shotguns, and zombies, and shotguns shooting zombies. But beneath the genre trappings lie a touching love story and a smart meditation on hope, addiction, and delusion.