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Containment Zone Kindle Edition
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...
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJanuary 9, 2014
- File size2609 KB
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,999,843 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #13,557 in Dystopian Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #15,561 in Dystopian Fiction (Books)
- #40,889 in Horror (Kindle Store)
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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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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
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.