Published: Feb. 29, 2012
Words: 86,048 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465946041

Short description

Bi-weekly paychecks, Tim Horton’s double doubles, men’s league hockey and cheap winter vacations to Cancun. That was the life Xander Barnes had known for years until a pandemic swept the globe. Nowadays, life consisted of avoiding the plague victims, ghouls who had an insatiable appetite for human flesh. How long can an average Canadian man survive in a world gone mad?

Extended description

Tokyo. Sydney. Beijing. Cairo. Paris. Rome. New York. Los Angeles. One by one, the world’s great cities fell to the zombie plague. What chance does a small, non-descript city in Canada like Edmonton have?

The world as we know it is finished. Civilization has collapsed and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Billions of people are dead, victims of a horrific plague. Shortly thereafter, that disease brought them back to life with an insatiable thirst for human flesh.

Police officer Dan Simpson had served in the Edmonton Police Service for close to a decade, and as a former member of the Tactical Team, had seen it all. Then one night, at a medical clinic, a patient died and later returned to life, attacking all around her. Dan and his partner were barely able to contain the situation, and from there, the infection spread like wildfire, consuming entire nations.

General Nicholas 'Steel' Raine was western Canada's senior most military commander, and his orders were to stop the.. (Read more) Tokyo. Sydney. Beijing. Cairo. Paris. Rome. New York. Los Angeles. One by one, the world’s great cities fell to the zombie plague. What chance does a small, non-descript city in Canada like Edmonton have?

The world as we know it is finished. Civilization has collapsed and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Billions of people are dead, victims of a horrific plague. Shortly thereafter, that disease brought them back to life with an insatiable thirst for human flesh.

Police officer Dan Simpson had served in the Edmonton Police Service for close to a decade, and as a former member of the Tactical Team, had seen it all. Then one night, at a medical clinic, a patient died and later returned to life, attacking all around her. Dan and his partner were barely able to contain the situation, and from there, the infection spread like wildfire, consuming entire nations.

General Nicholas 'Steel' Raine was western Canada's senior most military commander, and his orders were to stop the infection from spreading. But how does a man in command of a mere 6000 soldiers do that in an area larger than western Europe, populated by millions of citizens?

Xander Barnes had a simple life, working in a warehouse in Edmonton, Canada. When the pandemic began, he prepared himself as best he could, buying supplies, fortifying his condominium, and readying himself for the worst. The question was, would his preparations be enough?
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Review by: Shandy Jo on May 27, 2012 :
I had a really hard time writing this review. Mainly because this book isn't super great, and it isn't absolutely horrible. It's right dead (no pun intended) center middle of the road. The writings decent, the plot moves along at a good pace, with lots of action to keep you involved and routing for the good guys. There is a lot of head hopping, but for me that wasn't an issue. Yet it might have been the only glaring thing in the book was the misuse of multiple points of view.
There was a lot of telling and I understood why, but I wish the author could have found a better way to deliver that information. It was necessary that we learn it to know what's going on in the book, but just tossing it in there like that, well it felt like an info dump.
While there were a lot of characters, Xander, a hockey playing every man, and Dan, a cop, were the two I became invested in (although I use the term loosely). These were the two prominent characters, in my opinion, and they were good. You could empathize with them, they were average Joes, just trying to survive.
There was one small thing that peeked my interested and that was how the zombies acted and the fact that they became zombiecicles in the winter, that I found to be a stroke of genius. You never see zombies in the winter, except for that one movie with the Nazi zombies but I'm off track. The other thing that sets this book apart from others is it's set in Canada (if you didn't get that from the title) which gives it kind of a unique feel. If you're a fan of Night of the Living Dead movies then you'll probably like this book.

I received a copy from the author. It did not effect my opinion of the book.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Joe Beausoleil on April 01, 2012 :
The zombie genre has gotten stale this late while with a flood of poorly written books which is why Zombie Night In Canada is a fresh breath of rotting zombie corpses and gunsmoke. It has great action, a uniquely Canadian outlook (but not too Canadian as to alienate reads who don’t hail from the great white north) and has action, great detail and an all-round exciting story. Best zombie novel I’ve read in some time.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

Review by: Darin Cooper on April 01, 2012 :
Like Zombies? Like Guns? Like Canada? This book has them all. Infected Zombies are once again on the march. The plot revolves around the events surrounding an exponential zombie outbreak as it happens to the main protagonists rather then a story where they "wake up" to a world already overrun. The book is set mostly in Canada, especially Alberta with real world locations & references and contains good specific military weapon usage to help draw you into the story. Fans of the genre will appreciate the many references to other contemporary zombie stories including what I saw as a direct homage to the Dawn of the Dead 2004 remake.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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