When Zombies Attack Lower Manhattan

A zombie plague has wiped out 95 percent of America. Camps of survivors band together in pockets across the country, waiting for small squadrons of human “sweepers” to inch their way across major cities, destroying the remaining zombie-like creatures hiding out in office buildings and shopping malls.

But now the human sweepers have to tackle their biggest challenge yet: clearing the undead from Lower Manhattan.

That’s the setup of Colson Whitehead’s post-apocalyptic zombie novel Zone One. The book tracks a team of human “sweepers” as they make their way through a walled-off area of New York City over the course of three days.