By the Blood of Heroes by Joseph Nassise

Having risen from the dead with his abilities enhanced but his mind on the brink of madness, Richthofen has plans for victory that give no quarter to soldiers or civilians. With the help of a highly advanced British dirigible war machine to infiltrate enemy territory, the team faces incredible danger as it struggles to reach the prison camp and strike at the heart of the enemy.īut they are pitted against the most deadly enemy of all: Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. Burke assembles a team of disparate members, from his right-hand man, Sergeant Moore, to big-game-hunter-turned-soldier Clayton Manning, who funds the mission for an opportunity to confront this most dangerous zombie game, to professor Dan Richards, one of Tesla's top men and the resident authority on all things supernatural. When the American ace Major Jack Freeman-poster boy for the war against the Kaiser's undead army of shamblers-is downed over enemy lines and taken captive, veteran Captain Michael 'Madman' Burke is the only man brave and foolish enough to accept the mission to recover Freeman. Then turn them loose on the zombies!Īt the tail end of 1917, the Germans introduced a new type of gas to the battlefield, T-Leiche, or 'corpse gas,' and changed the face of the war by resurrecting the bodies of the dead, giving the enemy an almost unlimited source of fresh troops. A weapon that will come to be known as corpse gas.Train them. Follow the hero of The Great Undead War series, Captain Michael 'Madman' Burke, leader of Burke's Marauders, in the early days of the war, when the Germans are just beginning their field tests of a new weapon.Ī weapon that will eventually come to change the face of the war itself, that will resurrect the bodies of the dead, both friend and foe alike, and turn them into flesh-eating monsters. Here, for the first time, is the story behind the story. On May 1st, 2012 HarperVoyager released BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES, the first book in the new zombie steampunk alternate history series known as The Great Undead War by internationally bestselling author Joseph Nassise. Even that may not be enough to defeat the brilliance of the Central Powers' scientists and the advantages their advanced weapons give their troops as wave after wave of zombie soldiers are sent against the Allied front lines.

A beleaguered Britain fights resolutely on, but everyone knows that without the continued support of the United States it would fall within weeks. The Central Powers control most of Europe, with only a thin stretch of French coastline still in Allied hands.

The War to End All Wars continues, with no foreseeable end in sight. The zombie apocalypse meets World War One in this exciting prequel story to BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES, book one in the Great Undead War series! Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of The Dragon Factory Combine the take-no-prisoners heroic grit of Quentin Tarantino s Inglorious Basterds with the irreverent inventiveness of George A.

By the Blood of Heroes by Joseph Nassise