Wet Work - The Definitive Edition - Hardcover

Nutman, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1892950677 ISBN 13: 9781892950673

Publisher: Overlook Connection Press,US, 2005

Synopsis

The shocking novel that captured the attention and praise of today's most acclaimed storytellers returns in an author-approved definitive anniversary edition. Wet Work will show you the final days of humanity, the beginning of the end. Award nominated author Philip Nutman will make you believe the dead will rise up--and walk the earth. The day the comet came, the whole world looked up to the skies. From that day on, there would be no rest, no peace. Especially for the dead. They are everywhere. And as their troops increase in size--and appetite--a new order is slowly established from coast to coast. A new order that leaves no room for the living.

About this title

About the Author

Philip Nutman is an award nominated novelist, acclaimed short story scribe, screenwriter, journalist and comic book scripter, he has moved effortlessly between mediums over the last twenty years, weaving compelling macabre narratives. The author of nearly three dozen short stories, which have appeared in prestigious anthologies including Book of the Dead, Splatterpunks!, Borderlands 2, Darklands, and The Year's Best Horror Stories XIX and XX, to mention only a few, he is a four-time Bram Stoker Award nominee and a two-time finalist.

From the Inside Flap

Dominic Corvino covert assassin, the CIA's top wet work specialist.Nick Packard a rookie cop about to undergo his baptism of fire on the Washington DC mean streets.Two different men whose destinies are about to collide as Armageddon unfolds When a routine hit on a pair of rogue DEA agents goes horribly wrong in Panama, Corvino discovers not only has his team been betrayed from within, but he, too, is marked for death. For Packard, his first day on the job rapidly descends into Hell on Earth when a domestic disturbance turns into a blood-soaked nightmare.As a plague sweeps across the globe, turning normally non-lethal diseases fatal, the dead begin to revive. Violence-crazed and hungry for flesh, they are everywhere. And as their troops increase in size and appetite a new order is steadily established from coast to coast A new order that leaves no room for the living.

Edition details

• Publisher: Overlook Connection Press,US
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1892950677
• ISBN 13: 9781892950673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 316