Waking up this morning was the last thing Charlotte Pudding expected to do. Now she is with Vole Drakeforth and a mysterious woman on a quest to find the only man who knows what is really going on.In the desert country of Pathia, where ideas are hard currency, they search for answers and a tree.It will take more than an ex-wife, a revolution, and the mystery of a famous Arthurian artefact to stop Charlotte from uncovering the ultimate truth.

Ten years ago humanity lost the war for survival against a spreading plague that brought the dead back to life as flesh eating monsters. Now intelligent zombies rule the world. Feeding the undead a steady diet of cloned people called Tankbread, the survivors live in a dangerous world on the brink of final extinction. One outlaw courier must go on a journey through the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australia. Fighting his way into the very heart of the apocalypse in the desperate search for a way to save the last humans and destroy the undead threat. His only companion is a girl with an extraordinary secret. Her name is Else and she's Tankbread Praise for Tankbread Paul Mannering's TANKBREAD is a guts and glory joyride into very dark territory. Very nasty and lots of fun!" ~ Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of DEAD OF NIGHT and DUST & DECAY Mannering's take on the post-zombie apocalypse is scarifyingly real. Baked dog while you take orders from your zombie master anyone? Sink your teeth into an Australia where the zombies are in charge - you won't be disappointed. ~ Rocky Wood, author of STEPHEN KING: A LITERARY COMPANION and HORRORS! GREAT STORIES OF FEAR AND THEIR CREATORSAbout the AuthorPaul Mannering is an award winning writer living in Wellington, New Zealand Paul has published dozens of short stories and radio plays in a range of genres across many different international markets. In 2007 he co-founded BrokenSea Audio Productions, which podcasts free audio drama each week to an audience of millions. Paul lives with his wife Damaris and their three cats. www.tankbread.blogspot.com www.brokensea.com

Nine months after the Courier sacrificed himself to destroy the Adam and reduced the intelligent evols to shambling, mindless zombies, Else is preparing to give birth to the son of the man she loved. The child is born during a terrible storm, and feral zombies attack Else’s house in the Queensland bush. She must battle zombies, crocodiles and the elements to get her newborn son to safety. The child is lost when Else’s small boat is swept away on flood waters. She joins forces with an Aboriginal hunter called Jirra to track the boat down the river to the sea – hoping that her baby is still alive. Together they discover that the child has been taken by the Sea People. Human survivors that live on a derelict ship anchored off shore. Else continues her search – reaching the ship and discovering that a rag-tag tribe of human survivors live below decks, building their own mythology under the iron rule of the evol Captain and crew. Most newborns are given to the crew – the stem-cell rich infants are enough to keep the evols functioning as intelligent dead. Else encounters the different factions living in the superstructure, the Holders, The Engineers and The Fishermen. The first half of the book comes to an explosive conclusion as Else rescues her son and destroys the ship. In part 2 Else finds herself the unwilling leader of a band of survivors who have not been on land in years. She decides to lead them to Mildura, where she hopes that Sister Mary will have a place for them. The journey across the wasteland of Australia is hard and Else must learn to be a leader while struggling with her own demons and doubts. As the numbers of survivors grow Else is forced to make hard decisions. The sanctuary of Mildura is not as she had hoped – the scientist Donna is recreating the Tankbread programme – and wants to use Else and her son as tissue for experimentation. After a hard fought battle against Donna and the hordes of dead, Else leads her growing tribe of survivors to a new life – and in her son she sees hope for a future.

Nine months after the sacrifice of one man destroyed the evol hive-mind, Else is preparing for the arrival of a new life. When her son is born on a night of storm and rage, Else is thrust into a desperate struggle to save him from a gruesome fate in the hands of the zombie crew of a derelict ship. To rescue her son, Else must become the unwilling hero and savior of the last remnants of humanity.