K.J. Jones, Author
Book One:
Holding Ground, Part 1
Strong women without romance. Strong men who can take a joke. Realism meets fiction in a popular dark humor apocalypse series that’ll make you laugh as you buy a bunker!
Coastal Wilmington, North Carolina, innocently stands in crosshairs. The economy struggles. A flu pandemic spreads. The government asserts violent crazies appearing throughout town are on the newest zombie drug. But the rumor is they’re real zombies like those from the movies—the super strong kind that runs. The media reacts way too calmly to the carnage on the streets—what does that mean?
For wounded warrior former Staff Sergeant Peter Sullivan, the city careening toward disaster is a good thing. Chaotic war is what he does best. Normal people life is what he sucks at. His social circle of vet Army Rangers and Marines-turned-cops reports the strangest contact occurrences—is the zombie apocalypse finally happening?
PhD candidate Phebe Marcelino has seen that TV show—no dead people are reanimating, nor could they. 2012 experienced similar bizarre behavior from the zombie drug bath salts; isn’t this like that? Or was 2012 a cover story?
WHAT READERS SAY
This one goes in the reread pile!
“Love this book. It puts a new spin on zombie fiction, and quite frankly scared the crap out of me, since out of all the zombie books I've read this one seems like it could really happen! The storyline, humor, and action helped keep me reading instead of heading out to buy a bunker.”
—Carolyn, reviewed December 25, 2022.
Great characters and believable action
“Speaking as a cynical old soldier and nitpicking fool, all I can say about this book is it rocks hard and I could not wait to see the sequel. Most of these types of books are boring and derivative - not this one.”
—Michael L. Peirce, reviewed June 12, 2020.
