Slow Burn (Bobby Adair) Books in Order

Driven by grief and anger, Zed presses deeper into a city that keeps inventing new ways to kill him. Friends need saving, enemies need facing, and the infection is changing the rules faster than anyone can keep up.

Zed, Murphy, and Jerome are infected, but they still have their minds, which makes them dangerous to everyone. Cast out by other survivors, they head back into Austin chasing family, food, and rumors of shelter.

Zed Zane goes to his mother's house to beg for rent money and walks into blood, death, and infection instead. Arrested for murder and bitten in the chaos, he ends up watching the world collapse from the wrong side of the law.

Zed and Murphy are trying to gather their surviving friends and get west to safety. The problem is that the infected are not the only killers left in Texas, and trouble keeps finding them first.

After an infected attack tears through Sarah Mansfield's stronghold, Zed is left angry, stranded, and hunting for missing friends. The deeper he pushes into the chaos, the clearer it becomes that the Whites are evolving in dangerous ways.

Hoping for something like routine, Zed and Murphy head out on an ammo run and find fresh evidence that the naked infected are getting smarter. Their uneasy refuge suddenly looks far less secure than it should.

After the battle for Monk's Island, Zed and Murphy spot helicopters flying the same route every day and decide to follow them. The answers they find suggest civilization is not entirely dead, but the danger is very much alive.

Zed is done pretending he can let go of his hatred for Mark. He and Murphy set out to track the naked Whites and settle old scores, but revenge proves just as messy as survival always has.

With major enemies broken, Zed and Murphy head toward College Station hoping to do their part for humanity's future. The road is still brutal, and the world waiting for them is nothing like the one they imagined.

Fourteen years after the virus, Zed and Murphy are living in the fragile haven of Balmorhea in far West Texas. A new threat sweeping out of the desert puts everything their community built at risk.