金石堂布萊德彼特領銜主演之電影「末日之戰」原著小說
一場因殭屍而起的戰爭，意外地將地球上的人類打得潰不成軍，幾近滅亡。在這場有如世界末日般的浩劫降臨之後，聯合國調查員Max Brooks負責為這場戰役留下第一手的記錄。他從被毀滅的大城到最偏遠荒涼的小鎮，馬不停蹄地採訪調查，對象有時是成人，有時是孩童，偶爾還有垂死邊緣掙扎的傷患。
人類歷史上從未經歷過的恐懼，相對地也激發出生存者們強烈的對抗意志。Max Brooks必須在極短的時間內找出病毒來源，同時集結全球各地所有倖存者挺身反抗，因為眼前生存的希望無它，唯有進行一場末日之戰。
在這部劃時代的科幻鉅作中，除了令人神經緊繃的緊湊劇情，橫跨數國的場景變換外，災難期間真實赤裸的人性最是教人震撼不已。（文/博客來編譯）
Now a major motion picture
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.
Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, “By excluding the human factor, aren’t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn’t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as ‘the living dead’?”
