The fierce high-school football rivalry between two small
Texas towns, Killington and Elmwood, takes on disastrous
proportions when both teams seem headed to the district
championship. The Elmwood Heights Badgers have always taken
the title, but this year the Killington Jackrabbits finally
have a winning team under a new coach and star quarterback
Cole Logan that could win it all.
Juiced up on a wild Mexican mixture of steroids, the
Badgers stage an accident that ends up plunging the
Jackrabbits' bus into a swollen river. The only one who
survives is the coach, as well as Cole, who wasn't with
them because of an injury suffered that morning, also at
the hands of some of the Badgers.
Vowing to do whatever it takes to save his team, Cole
approaches his neighbor Black Mona, who's not only a witch
but an avid football fan, since he knows firsthand her
unique talents. Along with the coach's daughter, Savannah,
Cole accompanies Black Mona to the site of the drowned bus,
taking part in a ritual that raises the Jackrabbits players
from the dead. But things don't go exactly as planned, and
to save the boys' souls, a football game must be played
within 48 hours -- and the Jackrabbits have to be
victorious
over the Badgers. With Cole being the only person who can
control these zombie teammates, the fun and gore begins.
Will they be able to defeat the steroid-hyped Badgers, if
they are even able to make the game in time?
A great debut from a clever new author who proves talent
runs in the family. Ryan Brown is the son of the
illustrious, best-selling author Sandra Brown, as
well as being a former film and television actor. He's got
a winner with this darkly funny thriller that perfectly
infuses Friday Night Lights with zombies.
Today’s #1 New York Times bestselling thriller
writers agree: Ryan Brown’s compulsively readable first
novel is unbeatable—a darkly humorous, rich and pungent
zombie shocker that melds our national obsession with
football and the newest wave of fascination with the undead.
For the first time in Killington High School history, the
Jackrabbits football team is one win away from the district
championship where it will face its most vicious rival, the
Elmwood Heights Badgers. On the way to the game, the
Jackrabbits’s bus plunges into a river, killing every player
except for bad-boy quarterback Cole Logan who is certain the
crash was no accident—given that Cole himself was severely
injured in a brutal attack by three ski-masked men earlier
that day. Bent on payback, Cole turns to a mysterious fan
skilled in black magic to resurrect his teammates. But
unless the undead Jackrabbits defeat their murderous rival
on the field, the team is destined for hell.
In a desperate race against time, with only his coach’s
clever daughter, Savannah Hickman, to assist him, Cole must
lead his zombie team to victory. . . in a final showdown
where the stakes aren’t just life or death—but damnation or
salvation.
Boundlessly imaginative and thrillingly satisfying, Play
Dead gives small-town Texas an electrifying jolt of the
supernatural, and is unquestioningly The Zombie Novel of the
Year!
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