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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of theauthor’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,events, or locales is entirely coincidental.Copyright © 2006 by Max BrooksAll rights reserved.Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, adivision of Random House, Inc., New York.www.crownpublishing.comCROWN is a trademark and the Crown colophon is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataBrooks, Max.World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war / Max Brooks.—1st ed.1. War—Humor. I. Title.PN6231. W28B76 2006813'.6—dc222006009517eISBN-13: 978-0-307-35193-7eISBN-10: 0-307-35193-9v1.0
For Henry Michael Brooks,who makes me want to change the world
Page 2: ALSO BYMAX BROOKSTHE ZOMBIE SURVIVA
Page 8 and 9: INTRODUCTIONIt goes by many names:
Page 11 and 12: GREATER CHONGQING, THE UNITED FEDER
Page 13 and 14: His movements were so violent I had
Page 15 and 16: mine. There was sweat pouring down
Page 17 and 18: business. The golden rule was, you
Page 19 and 20: By then, yes, but I knew trying to
Page 21 and 22: pulped flesh bulging from their thr
Page 23 and 24: I assisted, Doctor Silva performed
Page 25 and 26: way home?Is that possible?Of course
Page 27 and 28: Khayelitsha. Like a combat veteran,
Page 29 and 30: our guard.The first warning I had o
Page 31 and 32: Paul turned the last page, then loo
Page 33 and 34: I, of course, scoffed at his timid
Page 35 and 36: and a job for my father at a salary
Page 38 and 39: LANGLEY, VIRGINIA, USA[The office o
Page 40 and 41: victim of a political witch hunt wh
Page 42 and 43: Our proposal to the White House. We
Page 44 and 45: attractive to Breckinridge “Breck
Page 46 and 47: manufacturing facilities all over t
Page 48 and 49: Oh, c’mon. Can you ever “solve
Page 50 and 51: TROY, MONTANA, USA[This neighborhoo
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The swarm continued among the cars,
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thought; any second, I thought I wo
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down from her face to her throat, t
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That’s how it went, I think. I re
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then I heard those words…“You s
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though…real pricks all high on th
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didn’t they use it; go to Antarct
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program from the ground up! They su
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They had us in MOPP 4, dude, Missio
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at what felt like inches above our
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than the Z Germ and the wonders of
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ROBBEN ISLAND, CAPE TOWN PROVINCE,
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one from others,” and, until that
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ARMAGH, IRELAND[While not a Catholi
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see my tears. “When we get back,
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[Shakes his head, laughs bitterly.]
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[Jesika Hendricks gestures to the e
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moving. I looked around for Patty,
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[We come upon a collection of bones
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I remember the monkeys, hundreds of
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for myself in a moment like that.Th
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TAOS, NEW MEXICO[Arthur Sinclair, J
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You’ve spent most of your life re
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employees working three shifts, sev
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BURLINGTON, VERMONT[Winter has come
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You did use the death penalty.Only
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clearly and calmly, and I even chal
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That’s all right.Well, as I under
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restored Malibu Pier Fortress. Thos
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Two weeks went by. I got a real job
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That erased the potential for rapid
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That must have been frustrating.Fru
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Coast if in-flight refueling assets
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wasn’t doing my job. I was squatt
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As I got closer, I could see that i
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I hit the water, facedown. Its chil
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And Honolulu never had any record o
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You got it.Right then. Castles. Wel
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[He hesitates.]Windsor.Windsor was
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[During World War II, this vast cor
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dispel the notion that sexual inter
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We also saw a complete halt to huma
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You can understand how this educati
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When I woke up, the screen was blan
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Her sheets?For more rope. I knew I
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pick it up. Many Kami Dana have a s
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the Akakaze went from a repatriatio
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It never came. The bear stopped pan
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Did you retrieve all the bodies?Eve
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successful as the U.S. strategy was
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impossible. Within a year they had
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adopt once our experienced, profess
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away! He knew it might have jeopard
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We couldn’t believe what we were
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Mrs. Pei, the mother of one of our
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now calling “the Pacific Continen
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Was that important?[Again, he does
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under the arctic twilight, I though
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No, and we didn’t expect it. The
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watched and recorded those as well,
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Sometimes I’m asked if we regrett
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So typically Norteamericano, reachi
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Two hundred million zombies 1 . Who
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about eight inches long, that you c
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hair hung in patches from her tight
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How did you know the battle was ove
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But the primary and most common mis
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chased off feral packs, twice they
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What happened to the dog?I wish I c
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when your weapon would “click”
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[Pause.] I don’t understand.The p
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bubble of surface pressure.[He gest
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always attracted at least a handful
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[Choi maneuvers us above them. They
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QUEBEC, CANADA[The small farmhouse
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struck the stone, if the stone was
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Groups: North, Center, and South. T
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Outside of Minneapolis, my squad wa
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Rarely, like, blue-moon rarely, we
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Most of the Eight Balls were later
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BURLINGTON, VERMONT[Snow has begun
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You’re wondering how this “exis
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Then the last skull I crack’ll pr
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I’m not going to say the war was
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let the world, and by the world I m
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DENVER, COLORADO, USA[Todd Wainio w
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I love you, Mom.
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Return to text.3. By this point, th
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Return to text.1. Although Machu Pi
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10. The International Space Station
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6. Figures on wartime weather patte
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