Ex-Isle
“It is an easy thing to rule by fear.”
It’s been years since the tidal wave of ex-humans washed over the world. Since then, thanks to St George and his fellow heroes, the community known as the Mount has been the last known outpost of safety, sanity, and freedom left to humanity.
But even for the Mount, survival still balances on a razor’s edge — and after a disaster decimates the town’s food supply, the heroes must make a risky gamble to keep its citizens from starving.
And then the news arrives of a strange, man-made island in the middle of the Pacific. An island populated not just by survivors, but by people who seem to be farming, raising children, living — people who, like the heroes, have somehow managed to keep the spark of civilization alive.
Paying this place a visit should be a simple goodwill mission, but as the island reveals itself to be a sinister mirror-image of what the heroes have built at the Mount, the cost of their good intentions becomes dangerously high.
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Peter Clines
Peter Clines grew up in the Stephen King fallout zone of Maine and started writing science fiction and fantasy stories at the age of eight. He is the author of Ex-Heroes, Ex-Patriots, and the genre-classics blender The Eerie Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, along with numerous pieces of short fiction and countless articles on the film and television industry. He currently lives and writes somewhere in southern California.
Ex-Heroes
In the days after civilization fell to the zombie hordes, a small team of heroes built a stronghold against the undead and brought the last humans they could gather within its walls. Now every day is a desperate battle against overwhelming odds, as the heroes fight to keep the undead at bay and lay down their lives for the humans they've sworn to protect.
Ex-Heroes consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
