A tainted vaccine turned tens of millions of Americans into ravenous cannibals. What’s left of the United States has descended into a violent, lawless war zone. For former Navy SEAL Cotton Wiley and his 12-year-old daughter Jean--two of just a handful of survivors who remain uninfected--every day has become a battle for survival.

Now, that battle has taken Cotton and Jean to the ruins of Houston, where they and their allies hope to uncover the origins of the apocalypse. However, that’s a secret powerful people will kill to protect, and soon Cotton and his team find themselves in the crosshairs of a ruthless assassin.

With hordes of cannibals ready to devour them alive and black-ops teams scouring the city for survivors, Cotton and his friends are in a race against time to find what they need and escape with their lives, but the price of failure could be even higher than they know.

Because there’s no limit to what the people behind this apocalypse will do to maintain their secrets up to and including thermonuclear annihilation itself.

The Dead and the Wasted is the thrilling third installment in the Cannibal Warfare series, raising the stakes in a new take on the zombie apocalypse genre that readers have described as “outstanding” and “completely different to any other zombie book I’ve ever read.”