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A Novel of Zombies, Booze, and Power Tools
Night Shade Books
January 2016
On Sale: January 15, 2016
Featuring: Vasilis "Billy" Kostopolos
ISBN: 1597808423
EAN: 9781597808422
Kindle: B014TOVNOE
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Science Fiction | Paranormal Thriller
Vasilis “Billy” Kostopolos is a Bay Area Rust Belt
refugee,
failed sci-fi writer, successful barfly and, since the
exceptionally American zombie apocalypse, an accomplished
“driller” of reanimated corpses. There aren’t many sane,
well-adjusted human beings left in San Francisco, but
facing
the end of the world, Billy’s found his vocation
trepanning
the undead, peddling his one and only published short
story,
and drinking himself to death. Things don’t stay static for long. Billy discovers that
both
his girlfriends turn out to be homicidal revolutionaries.
He
collides with a gang of Berkeley scientists gone
berserker.
Finally, the long-awaited “Big One” shakes the foundation
of
San Francisco to its core, and the crumbled remains of
City
Hall can no longer hide the awful secret lurking deep in
the
basement. Can Billy unearth the truth behind America’s
demise and San Francisco’s survival—and will he destroy
what
little’s left of it in the process? Is he legend, the
last
man, or just another sucker on the vine? Nick Mamatas takes a high-powered drill to the lurching,
groaning conventions of zombie dystopias and conspiracy
thrillers, sparing no cliché about tortured artists,
alcoholic “genius,” noir action heroes, survivalist
dogma,
or starry-eyed California dreaming. Starting in booze-
soaked
but very clear-eyed cynicism and ending in gloriously
uncozy
catastrophe, The Last Weekend is merciless, uncomfortably
perceptive, and bleakly hilarious.
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