Burden of Time
Zombie Fallout, Book 21 By Mark Tufo
The SS Jimmy Carter’s crew washes ashore on Brazil’s unforgiving tropical coast, a graveyard of rusted metal and shattered dreams. For Mike Talbot’s beleaguered squad, this is hell on earth – no paradisiacal reprieve awaits them on these savage shores of damnation.
Though the Brazilian government lies in smoldering ruins, the jungle interior seethes with violently zealous guerrilla forces hellbent on upholding a patriotic doctrine long rendered meaningless. These are not the khaki-clad, banana-toting guerrillas of adventure novels, but hardened fanatics fueled by an unspeakable mania.
As if the human threat weren’t dire enough, an infinitely darker presence torments the land – the unquiet dead. The undead scourge rages unchecked across South America, its ranks swelling as the zombies mutate at an exponential, unnatural rate into ever more grotesque and terrifying forms. Each new mutation outstrips the last, spawning abominations of such size, strength and savagery that they seem virtually unstoppable.
Death tolls climb as Mike’s forces are whittled away by the dual onslaught of man and monster. The nightmarish visions and phantasms haunt his sleepless nights and waking dreams alike. His faith in divine deliverance wavers as losses mount. With his squad’s numbers dwindling to a mere handful of survivors, the dream of returning to the Colorado homeland appears more foolish and unattainable by the day.
Here on the woefully misnamed “Brazilian Riviera,” a microcosm of the world’s damnation persists. To endure this purgatorial hellscape and overcome its untold horrors is the only path leading home.
