Noises outside his room at night disturb Jack. He tries to break his fear down as his big sister had told him – name the parts and then the whole will not seem as scary. This night it does not work, and he is soon joined by his parents.

His father checks what is happening outside Jack's window and fires his shotgun at the intruders. They decide that they can no longer remain safely in their cottage and make the decision to travel to the nearby town of Tewton, where Jack's elder sister Mandy lives, where they believe they could find out what the Government was doing to protect the remaining unaffected population of England.

This is a zombie story. The difference here from many other zombie tales is that this is told entirely from the point of view of Jack, a young boy. Nothing is included that would be beyond his understanding and all responses are that of a child.

There is no real gore in this tale, quite unusual for a zombie tale, and the zombies here seem to be the result of a disease rather than any supernatural means.

At eighty pages this is not a story that takes a large commitment – most people will probably read this on one sitting – and will give far more back than it requires the reader to put in. The style is comfortable, and the author has made full use of the limited length available to him in this book. It is not the greatest of books in PS Publishing's range (I think that for me is reserved for Paul di Filippo's A Year in the Linear City, but it does maintain the high standard in this publisher's range.