Zombies, wave after wave of zombies. Mercifully, Brooks doesn't waste time and effort inventing scientific mumbo-jumbo to explain them. A virus, apparently out of China, kills and reanimates people into the infection carrying "Zacks," or "Zed-Heads." I enjoyed the oral history style inspired by Studs Terkel and was pleasantly surprised by the satiric elements -- Cuba comes out ahead, vainglorious celebs don't fare so well.

Now, I don't have night terrors or anything like that; but, the bad dreams I do have often feature zombies, so I was a little concerned about giving my (tasty zombie bait) brain nightmare fodder ... but for a book that piles corpses (living and undead) into stacks that need to be bulldozed to clear a path, there's really no Romero-ish terror to be had. Which is fine with me.

Highly recommended.