“Smoking” Joe Johnstone, an inspector with the Carlisle City Police, chases a saboteur wreaking havoc in the western marches of Britain during World War One. This reiver has nothing to do with the border reivers, apart from the location, but it’s a ripping yarn all the same.
The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser
Possibly the gold-standard for the history of the Border Reivers, the lawless clans, the original gangsters, that scratched a living on the border between Scotland and England until the start of the seventeenth century, when James IV and I unified the crowns.
Zombies!: A Small World by RS Merritt
“The Apocalypse will cause some to stand a little taller while others will collapse under the weight of it.”
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Humanity is almost extinct. Those left survive in the worlds largest air-raid shelter, the Moscow Metro. Artyom, native of the northernmost inhabited station, is tasked with getting to the heart of the system, and alerting everyone to the awful dangers threatening his home. Heavy going, it took me ages to read.
This Rotten World: Winter of Blood by Jacy Morris
Snow falls on Oregon burying the world under an icy blanket of white. One group of survivors navigate the politics of a walled community, while the other deals with a cult and its leader. It’s more than just the gory action that keeps you reading, but the ever changing point of view offering depth to the story.
Life of the Dead: Road of the Damned by Tony Urban
More “non-stop action and gory details”.
Life of the Dead: Hell on Earth by Tony Urban
“Who will survive in a land overrun with the undead?”
Apocalypse Z: The Wrath of the Just by Manel Loureiro
After escaping Lanzarote in a boat, our Spanish lawyer, the woman he loves, and his friend, the battle-weary helicopter pilot, are rescued from the open ocean, and taken to Gulfport, Mississippi. They’re offered a place in the stronghold, if they’re willing to submit to a fascist dictator and his brutal enforcers?
Apocalypse Z: Dark Days by Manel Loureiro
As the last “chance to control the pandemic evaporated and the virus began its deadly march, turning the pandemic into an Apocalypse”, Spanish lawyer, his Persian cat, the Ukrainian pilot Viktor “Prit” Pritchenko, the teenager Lucia, and Sister Cecilia, gamble everything, and make a desperate attempt to reach Lanzarote, hoping the island will offer protection, but instead find the living can be as dangerous as the dead.
This Rotten World: No More Heroes by Jacy Morris
With Portland in their rear-view-mirror our survivors encounter new perils, some undead, some very much alive. Morris keeps the action moving, and the threats coming, and the multiple storylines flowing.
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