When the German high command employs a terrible new chemical weapon that reanimates the dead, Allied forces must take on the Kaiser’s zombie army in order to rescue a downed American flying ace in the first book of Nassise’s The Great Undead War saga. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, set it on the blood-and-gore-soaked European battlefields of World War One, and you get By the Blood of Heroes, a wildly imaginative alternate history zombie novel by acclaimed urban fantasy author Joseph Nassise. Relentless pacing, nonstop action, and improbable but nifty-sounding military gadgetry (portable personal gliding devices, magnetism grenades) power an unremittingly entertaining story line that with broad appeal for history buffs, horror aficionados, and fans of steampunk.“Joe Nassise has raised the bar for the whole genre.” -Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of The Dragon FactoryĬombine the take-no-prisoners heroic grit of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds with the irreverent inventiveness of George A. To complicate matters, the captured pilot happens to be Burke's estranged half-brother. Burke and his team must maneuver through territory inhabited by shamblers Kaiser Wilhelm's undead troops and more than a few walking dead monstrosities recently developed by Germany's scientific brain trust. In an alternate WWI, Michael "Madman" Burke, a veteran American soldier with an artificial "clockwork" arm, is assigned to go deep behind enemy lines and rescue a famous Allied pilot who has been shot down by the Germans.
Nassise (the Jeremiah Hunt Chronicles) fills the adrenaline-fueled first installment of the Great Undead War saga with an audacious mix of military fiction, steampunk, and zombies. By the Blood of Heroes is a deliciously gruesome adventure that horror and alternate history lovers, steampunk aficionados, and fans of such zombie-centric offerings as TV’s The Walking Dead, popular literature’s World War Z, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Zombie Haiku, and the Resident Evil video game and film series will eagerly devour.
Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of The Dragon FactoryĬombine the take-no-prisoners heroic grit of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds with the irreverent inventiveness of George A. “Joe Nassise has raised the bar for the whole genre.”
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