Ex-Patriots - A Novel

Zusatztext Praise for Ex-Heroes: “Bound to appeal to fans of zombies and superheroes alike… If ever a book had the potential for a Hollywood blockbuster! this is it.” —SF Signal “I was completely floored by this book’s ingenuity and charm...exemplifies the real meaning of a page-turner.” —Fantasy Book Critic “I loved this pop culture-infused tale of shamed superheroes struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse in the ruins of Hollywood. It's The Avengers meets The Walking Dead with a large order of epic served on the side.” —Ernest Cline! New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One    “Zombies? Check. Superheroes? Check. Awesome? Check.  Ex-Heroes has it all. You’re in for a treat!” —Mira Grant! New York Times bestselling author of Feed “A novel that will take you on a wild and heart-warming ride...[A] creative zombie story! with in-depth characters! and filled with humor! action! and gruesome fight scenes…the final clash made my heart race in ways seldom accomplished by a book.” — Wired.com Informationen zum Autor Peter Clines Klappentext The second novel in Peter Clines' bestselling Ex series.It's been two years since the plague of ex-humans decimated mankind. Two years since the superheroes St. George, Cerberus, Zzzap, and Stealth gathered Los Angeles's survivors behind the walls of their fortress, the Mount. Since then, the heroes have been fighting to give the Mount's citizens hope, and something like a real life. But now supplies are growing scarce, the zombies are pressing in . . . and the heroes are wondering how much longer they can hold out. Then hope arrives in the form of a surviving US Army battalion--and not just any battalion. The men and women of the Army's Project Krypton survived the outbreak because they are super-soldiers, created before mankind's fall to be better, stronger, faster than normal humans--and their secure base in Arizona beckons as a much needed refuge for the beleaguered heroes and their charges. But a dark secret lies at the heart of Project Krypton, and those behind it wield an awesome and terrifying power. The Doctor Is In THEN I was in my private lab, gathering the notes for my one-thirty lecture. My teaching assistant, Mary, was dividing her time between searching for the flash drive that contained my PowerPoint slides and organizing a pile of correspondence and journals that had spilled onto the floor from my desk. To her credit, she'd let the papers fall and grabbed the photos of my wife and daughter. My beard was scratching against my collar. I'd wanted to have it trimmed before the start of the semester and lost track of time. Now I was heading off to my fourth lecture and it still was a shaggy mess of too-much-silver hair. Eva hates it when my beard gets too long. It was short when we met in grad school. I needed to stop by the campus barber before I ended up looking any more like Walt Whitman. I heard the door open behind me as I packed my briefcase, but thought nothing of it until I heard my name. "Dr. Emil Sorensen?" The speaker was a young man I didn't recognize. He wore a well-tailored suit he looked uncomfortable in. A double-Windsor-knotted tie. Tight, cropped hair above sharp eyes. I'd seen this ploy many times. Every professor sees it at least once or twice a semester. There are a few different names for it, but here the faculty calls it the VIP Play. An undergrad tries to look or sound important to put themselves on equal footing with their instructor. Then they explain the extenuating circumstances behind a certain grade or exam result. They drop the names of people who would be disappointed because of it. Which all leads, of course, to the suggestion that they should be allowed to resubmit a paper, re...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Clines, Clines Peter
• Editore: Crown Publishing Group
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 23.04.2013
• EAN: 9780804136594
• ISBN: 978-0-8041-3659-4
• Pagine: 432
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Serie: Ex-Heroes; Ex-Heroes
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy