State of Decay - Revivors, Bk 1 Author:James Knapp Just because you're dead doesn't mean you're useless ... — A thrilling debut novel of a dystopian future populated by a new breed of zombie — They call them revivors -- technologically reanimated corpses -- and away from the public eye they do humanity's dirtiest work. But FBI agent Nico Wachalowski has stumbled upon... more » a conspiracy involving revivors being custom made to kill -- and a startling truth about the existence of these undead slaves.
Nico Wachalowski is an FBI agent; a first tier citizen who has gained his status by both his military service and his continued work for the government. While investigating a revivor sex ring, Nico stumbles across a much larger conspiracy and discovers that military grade revivors are being smuggled into the country. Revivors are zombies in the sense that they are the reanimated dead. In 'State of Decay' becoming a zombie is voluntary and a frequent means for a person to move up in caste. Legal revivors are generally used as soldiers, but their use is controversial and they are kept away from general populace. But someone is smuggling illegal revivors and using them commit a bizarre series of murders.« less