Zone One
Published in 2011, Zone One is a horror novel by Colson Whitehead and Mireia Carol Gres. The story is set in Manhattan, New York, N.Y. and New York, State. Readers will find themes of zombies, virus diseases, survival and viruses.
Open Library readers give it an average of 2.9 out of 5 from 13 ratings, and 67 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 13 editions.
At about 280 pages, most readers finish it in 5–6 hours.
About Zone One
Mark Spitz and his squad of three "sweepers" move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as "stragglers": zombies who have bypassed the cannibalistic urges of their more lethal fellows in favor of a hollow-eyed, eerily nostalgic repetition of some mundane act.
Awards & lists
- ✦Locus Awards 2012 — Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)
Quick answers
Who wrote Zone One?
Zone One was written by Colson Whitehead and Mireia Carol Gres and first published in 2011.
What genre is Zone One?
It is usually shelved as Horror.
How long is Zone One?
The median edition has 280 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Zone One?
Readers who like it often enjoy American Psycho, Falling Stars and City of Fallen Angels.
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