Dead America: New York Tales Books in Order

Peyton and her friends go clubbing to celebrate her sister’s birthday during the first hours of a zombie outbreak. What should be an ordinary evening becomes another part of the disaster beginning to overtake New York.

A small group sheltering inside a New York apartment building runs short of food as the days pass. Reaching their neighborhood bodega requires abandoning refuge and risking the streets, turning a familiar shopping trip into a dangerous survival mission.

As hope of rescue fades during the outbreak, two unstable brothers decide to take action themselves. Their effort to save their own lives expands to include others they encounter, bringing an unpredictable response to a city descending into disaster.

People working overnight in an office building find themselves caught in the outbreak. Surviving the unfolding disaster requires cooperation among a small group whose ordinary workplace has suddenly become the setting for a struggle against the end of normal life.

A routine morning subway journey becomes a fight against the undead for a group of trapped commuters. Ordinary passengers must contend with the outbreak inside a familiar part of New York’s daily life as the disaster overtakes their route.

Shoppers inside a Times Square toy store encounter the first moments of the zombie outbreak. A place intended for everyday purchases becomes a survival setting, forcing the people gathered there to respond as the city’s ordinary routines abruptly collapse.

Two New York stories follow the outbreak’s earliest hours: police officers answering a domestic call discover an unexpected threat, while a couple in Central Park depends on a homeless man to survive. Familiar encounters become dangerous as the city changes around them.

Two stories follow workers caught on their routes during the outbreak: a bus driver tries to move passengers through infested Manhattan streets, while refuse collectors join customers to survive. Ordinary public-facing jobs become immediate tests of responsibility and cooperation.

A disturbing late-night phone call draws Cora into the unfolding disaster, while a young police officer faces chaos during his first night on the water. These paired stories reveal separate experiences of New York’s opening hours of collapse.

A construction crew encounters trouble as the outbreak begins, while Carl, the familiar emergency-response radio voice, struggles to survive the same opening hours. The paired stories connect different working lives with the first consequences of the city’s sudden catastrophe.

As the zombie outbreak reaches North Manhattan, guests and employees at a boutique hotel find themselves facing a shared threat. They must set aside their separate lives and work together to survive inside the building.