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Containment Zone Kindle Edition

by R. A. Seckler (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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October 12th, 2021. That was the day Death ceased her collection of souls.

Instead of claiming people on the day of their death, Death has doomed human beings to remain trapped inside their decaying bodies until a sliver of the brain dubbed the "soul region" rots away. The government's only solution is to set up Containment Zones in each state to handle the burgeoning undead demographic. However, what were intended to be peaceful, country club settings for the deceased quickly fill above and beyond capacity, to the point that each Containment Zone more closely resembles a third world slum, slums filled with our dead and decaying loved ones...

Parker Wallace May wasn't ready to die, but when one inhales too much smoke from a house fire, that's exactly what tends to happen. He never imagined ending up in a Containment Zone at his age, and definitely never imagined his living wife would abandon him and never return his calls. But when Parker receives news from the outside that his wife is getting remarried, Parker sets out to do the one thing no one has ever done before...break out of the Containment Zone...

To do this, Parker goes to work for a ruthless undead mobster smuggling in and selling an illegal drug called Phanex that reacts with the soul region of the dead's brain, giving them a taste of the life they once had but exacerbating their decay with each use…

Can Parker escape the Containment Zone and get back to his wife? Or will Parker succumb to the alluring qualities of Phanex, planting the seeds of his own demise in the process...

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R. A. Seckler is the author of the zombie novel Containment Zone, and the upcoming post-apocalyptic novel The River Phangies.

For more information, visit: rasecklerfiction.wordpress.com

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GUMOGES
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (January 9, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 9, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2609 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 266 pages

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Bob Langerhance

An interesting perspective on the woes of an undead aftermath.

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2014

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The concept alone is worth exploring, but this excellent character story has a lot of meat to it. Even if it is rotting meat.

What would our world be like if we kept going until we decayed into a violent rotting mess? This book covers a lot of ground as far as how are loved ones would react, the government and ourselves. The stubbornness of The main character, Parker and his denial is only equalled by his ambitious pipe dream of escaping the Oregon Containment Zone and somehow convincing his already distant, still alive former wife to walk out on a wedding engagement.

Quite an epic finale and a handful of enthralling twists. Some real interesting sociological, thought provoking concepts, and one heck of Phanex induced trip...

I felt there were a lot of comparable aspects of modern drug abuse and the undead addiction to Phanex. Tolerance goes up and appearance down. With this, Parker brings a whole new meaning to 'sampling your own product'. Phanex is both his means to pay for his escape but also his only way to escape the mental, doomy burden it is to know you are dead and segregated. (I had a theory that the government possibly put Phanex out on the black market to increase the rate of decay. This to deal with capacity as the dead linger on too long in some cases)

And I love the character, Alm. Short for Almond. Loved that.

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Daryl J. Shippee

Just finished and I'm just....

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2014

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I just finished this book after finding it as a free E-Book. I had seen it and the cover had caught my eye along with the title. The title what can I say about it? It pretty much does an excellent job of summing up nearly the entirety of the book whilst giving nothing away. I started reading this today (I wish amazon would create a book timer so you could see how long it takes you to read one) and other than getting food finished in a single sitting. The storyline and development of the main character is well done in my opinion. So much could be said about this book (but that would give things away) but the best thing that can be said is give it a chance. It sucked me in until the very end. So much happens and it is easy to get very involved with the characters that at times you are thinking "that's just not fair for him". So go ahead give it a shot if you like zombie books I can almost promise you that you will enjoy this one, its a very fresh take on something that (IMO) has become a stale genre.

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2016

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This was a surprising gift if a read... one of those books you grab as a time filler between the books you THINK you REALLY want to read. Not so. A wonderful story with colorful characters and a purely original ideology of what would happen if we didn't die when we 'die'... the soul is a powerful force! If you're looking for an exciting, thought provoking story, this is the book for you!

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2014

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some parts of the book really enjoyable, but... the author should have opted another story. The decay of zombies reminds me very much on the ageing process of the human body- that is too cruel toward the readers. We all are ageing human bodies. I cannot forgive!

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Maynard Burt

A Dark Side to Getting Older

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2014

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This writer has a way to make you feel like you are standing right next to the character and it is not a;ways so calming when you read the possibilities that this plaque might befall us, great job, I did enjoy the read.

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Martin

Containment Zone, Good Read

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2016

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Containment Zone, Good Read. I liked the book it had a different twist to it and that was good.

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2014

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What a bittersweet story this is. How awful it would be .. to be dead, knowing you are dead, knowing that your body was slowly rotting ... and as your body rots, so does your brain .. turning into madness ... and then all of the dead are put into a concentration camp ... ( but for better words .. Containment Zone ) ... tested every so often to how much your mind has deteriorated ... with the fear of missing an answer, because there is even a worse place inside the containment zone called "The Ward". You have all your thoughts and memories at first. You try to live a dead life, try to work at a job, go to the bar, down an alcohol drink that has no effect on you, nothing to ease the pain of being forgotten by love ones. This is one man's story on how he survived the hell on earth. What a story..

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Surprisingly a Unique Slant on the Undead

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2014

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I gave this book four stars due to its unique approach towards an Undead story line. It is so different though that I wasn't quite sure I'd finish the book. I did. I cannot say that it's among the group of "the best" I've read, but due to its unique approach, I'd recommend it for you to read if for no other reason to just hear what you have to say about it. This author definitely has an imagination although there are some things the author could have explained that were not.

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A book that breaks the mould

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2017

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Anyone who reads zombie novels pretty much knows what to expect - living heroes chased by undead bad guys - but not in this one
You could take parts of this as a statement on society turning it's back on the people it no longer has a use for - those with incurable disease or aged dicrepitude - and other parts as an illustration of how drug addiction is fuelled and multiplied by desperation - a well thought out plot kept me up late to finish

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sad zombie story about human inhumanity

Reviewed in Germany on December 27, 2013

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Containment Zone presents us an unusual take on Zombies. Death has stopped collecting the souls of dead people, so they just "live" on. Being dead takes a toll on their bodies, they decay and rot, including their brains. There are 3 stages of dead: the first one is usually a newly dead with a functioning brain, normal behaviour and only a bit of decay. Stage two means loss of memory, problems with remembering and thinking clearly, and advanced rotting. Stage three means violent behaviour, attacking other people and other dead, killing, biting. As a dead person you are either cared by a relative or being held in a containment zone. At stage 3 you are forced into the Ward where you will spend the last days of your undead life in hell. The dead can die, if the brainstem is destroyed. Among all this misery, Parker, only 28 years old, died after trying to save his little daughter from a fire. Now he cannot understand why his wife never visits him and doesn't want to speak to him anymore. He is determined to leave the containment zone, and he is ready to do whatever it takes. In the end he will have to make a decision which way to take.

Containment Zone is a creepy story. Imagine that the dead simply don't die anymore. It is not their fault (!) but they are being treated like monsters, although they still have memories, feelings and long to be with their loved one. Due to stage three dead being violent and unpredictable they are all rounded up and being held in inhuman conditions, because, hey, the dead are dead, they have no rights!

Parkers story is very sad. He clings to his former life, to his wife, to his memories. He never gives up and does anything (anything!) to be with her again. As a reader you can easily sympathize with him and his struggle, feel for him. This is why it is so sad. Because as a reader with all your wits you know that he can't be successful, you understand what happens even if he closes his eyes to the truth. To the end, you will become anxious, what will happen IF he succeeds....And then you will simply be relieved. Because even in his stupor, in his determination, his obsession, he doesn't forget: what it is to do the right thing, the humane thing!

I loved the book! It was thrilling, exhilarating, sad, gripping. I wanted to know the end, but at the same time dreaded it. I understood poor Parker, felt with him. But I also understood his wife. This unusual "Zombie" story should make us contemplate how we would treat the dead, how we would react. And I have the suspicion that we would treat them in the same way they are being treated in the book.....

For "Zombie"-Fans: this book does not contain real Zombies in the sense we know them, but there is a lot of violent behaviour going on, remorseless killing, gore, and ickiness. Recommended for adults.

Amazon Customer

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2018

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great

Luke McEvoy

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2015

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Truly brilliant.