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DIRGE By Ken Knight (Authorhouse 2010; 480 pgs. Pb) Mickey is a loser. Picked on throughout school and ridiculed by the girl he wants, he seems to be going nowhere fast. After winning big on a lottery ticket, Mickey attempts to redeem himself to Monique only to be struck down in a terrible accident. Now, the zombie apocalypse has begun in the Southeastern United States….and it’s being led by that same loser. No one outside of a four-star general and a handful of people working for a company called DIEWINN knows the true beginnings of this new cataclysmic event. Washington D.C. has fallen to the zombies who seem to be able to think and react as readily as when alive. Society has begun to unravel and the government and military are unable to stop the unprecedented contagion. With an administration more concerned with civil rights, a CEO looking to cash in on experimental nanotechnology and a potential military conspiracy, can anyone stop the horde of resurrected dead before it’s too late? Ken Knight has taken the zombie sub-genre to an all-new level with DIRGE. It is a fresh take on the causes, results and outcomes of a zombie apocalypse. Character development is great leaving the reader able to understand and even sympathize with Mickey and his situation. DIRGE is populated with some very interesting people including Luciana Belacourt, the CEO of DIEWINN, who is the perfect evil genius. I genuinely disliked her as an individual. The pacing of the story is spot on and quick, holding the reader’s interest until the very end without any lag. The ending took me completely by surprise in its unpredictability….and as anyone who knows me can attest to, I hate predictability. One complaint I have with DIRGE is with the character Hoochie. For whatever reason I just couldn’t connect with the character. Another is that sometimes the grammatical usage got a little repetitive. Other than that DIRGE is a great and refreshing read that had me hooked from page one. Colleen Wanglund

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