Zone One

It's monochromatically unsettling and blackly comic, as any zombie-related fiction should be. It's also one of the most gut-wrenchingly emotional reads of the year, with tragedy complex and inevitable enough to be Shakespearian... the tension is through the roof. The humour is perfectly pitched... He uses the entire situation to skewer and satirise... But where Zone One truly flourishes is in its depiction of the heartbreaking loss; loss of the chance to be simply mundane, loss of a perfectly formed stronghold and the relationships built up within. At moments like these, the book is quite startlingly, heartbreakingly beautiful, regardless of the subject matter... Whitehead's prose is engrossing, simultaneously verbose and casual enough to stroll off the page and shake your hand... even George A Romero would have to marvel at Zone One... what'll be more interesting is whether Whitehead will ever write anything as astounding as this again

Gareth Hughes, SciFi Now

A cool, thoughtful and, for all its ludic violence, strangely tender novel

New York Times Book Review

A dark futuristic satire laced with fiendish humour

The Times

A zombie story with brains... Whitehead can spin gore into macabre poetry

Washington Post

As satirical and gut-wrenchingly emotional as it is horrific, Zone One is the zombie tale at its literary best

SciFi Now

Exhilarating, heartbreaking

Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday

It's tense, suspenseful and terrifying... Yet, he's also very funny at times and anyone who has ever had dealings with a HR department will appreciate his asides at the zombies in personnel

Ann Marie Stanton, Irish Independent

Often simultaneously arch and sombre, Whitehead's narrative flares with a sociological intelligence

Benjamin Evans, Daily Telegraph

Profoundly thoughtful... Zone One is a dark mirror, to be sure, but there is no doubt it is our own age that is being scrutinised here

New Statesman

Punchy cocktail of horror, comedy and social critique

Metro

What Whitehead does really well is anchor his apocalypse in the small, heartbreaking details of everyday humanity, giving his end-of-days a bleak, sad humour that is all its own

Alison Flood, Sunday Times

Whitehead's witty spin on the zombie apocalypse is an enjoyable read and is highly recommended

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