The Living Dead. Dawn

An epic story of unprecedented scale, a true quintessence of zombie horror, from the godfather of the genre, the legendary George A. Romero. He turned to a major literary form to tell the tragic tale of the uprising of the dead and the fall of humanity in a way that limited means of filmmaking would never allow. Unfortunately, Romero passed away before he could complete his monumental work. By the will of his widow, the great honor of finishing the novel fell to renowned horror creator and author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, Daniel Kraus.
For millennia, humanity lived in anticipation of the end of the world. And it came, but it all began not with a global flood, an alien invasion, or an asteroid crash, but with a single corpse that astonishingly refused to remain dead. The zombie epidemic spread with incredible speed across all continents, civilization fell in just days, and the few survivors of this massacre had to unite, fighting a desperate battle for survival against hordes of the risen dead and ruthless gangs of the living, feasting on the ruins of the old world.
Book One - "Dawn". Darkness awakens and spreads across the world.