Fire & Ash (48 page)
Authors: Jonathan Maberry
Tags: #Juvenile Fiction, #Action & Adventure, #General, #Horror & Ghost Stories, #Social Issues, #Death & Dying
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2013 by Jonathan Maberry
Jacket photograph copyright © 2013 by John E. Barrett
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Endpaper art by Rob Sacchetto
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Maberry, Jonathan.
Fire & ash / Jonathan Maberry. — First edition.
pages cm. — (Rot & ruin ; book 4)
Summary: When Benny and his friends learn that a scientist may have discovered a cure for the zombie plague, they mount a search and rescue mission, unaware that the reapers want the cure to wipe humanity off the face of the earth.
ISBN 978-1-4424-3992-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4424-3994-8 (eBook) [1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Zombies—Fiction.]
I. Title. II. Title: Fire and ash.
PZ7.M11164Fi 2013
[Fic]—dc23
2012047976
Part One: The Hinges of Destiny