Three months after the beginning of the Mad Swine outbreak, the residents of Randall Oaks have reached their breaking point. After surviving the initial outbreak and a war waged with their neighboring community, Providence, their supplies are severely close to depletion. With hostile neighbors at their flanks and hordes of infected outside their walls, they have become prisoners within their own c

People refer to the infected as “zombies,” but that’s not what they really are. Zombie implies the infected have died and reanimated. The thing is, they didn’t die. They’re still alive; they even breath. They’re just not human anymore.Screams and a pulled fire alarm transform Matt Danzig’s average day in the university admissions office to anything but normal. After witnessing a colleague attacking a student with his teeth, Danzig begins a hectic journey to find his kids, his wife, and perhaps a much darker version of himself than he ever expected. As the infection spreads and crazed hordes--dubbed “Mad Swine”--take over the cities, Danzig and the residents of Randall Oaks find themselves locked in a desperate struggle to survive in the new world. "Extremely well-written ... the story and characters kept me turning the pages faster and faster."--Zombie-Reviews.com "An excellent addition to the zombie subgenre... will make you look at the swine flu in a whole new light!"—Jessica Meigs, author of THE BECOMINGReview"Mad Swine is extremely well-written and edited, and the story and characters kept me turning the pages faster and faster...I will definitely purchase the continuation of the series the day it is released!" --Zombie-Reviews.com From the AuthorMad Swine: The Beginning will be re-issued through Permuted Press in March 2012. Permuted Press will also be publishing the sequel, Mad Swine: Dead Winter.

In the final book of the Mad Swine series, Matt and Brian are challenged by new enemies, far more dangerous than the living dead. The survivors struggle to keep their humanity as they try to hold on to what they have left–and take back all that they’ve lost.