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The outbreak tore the U.S. in two. The east remains a safe haven. The west has become a ravaged wilderness. They call it the Evacuated States. It is here that Henry Marco makes his living. Hired by grieving relatives, he tracks down the dead and delivers peace.
Now Homeland Security wants Marco for a mission unlike any other. He must return to California, where the apocalypse began. Where a secret is hidden. And where his own tragic past waits to punish him again.
But in the wastelands of America, you never know who - or what - is watching you.
- Sales Rank: #958267 in Books
- Published on: 2012-04-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.75" h x 1.25" w x 4.25" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 448 pages
Review
'Hands down one of the best zombie novels I've read in a long, long time. From first page to last, THE RETURN MAN is an astonishing read. With characters you genuinely give a damn about and a story that'll keep you turning page after page, this is an outstanding debut.'―David Moody, author of Autumn
"Thrilling, melancholy, and stomach-churningly gory... This is a sturdy and crowd-pleasing novel that squarely hits its target."―Publishers Weekly
"A hair-raising quest ... Zito expertly piles on thrills, cliffhangers and numerous twists ..."―The Guardian (UK)
"An overload of thrills, spills and adventure."―The Sun (UK)
"V.M. Zito manages to do away with many of the most common elements of the zombie novels...some books of this ilk lurch from scenario to scenario like levels in a videogame, but here it's all done smoothly...enjoyable."―SFX
'Zombies, action, and overlapping schemes make this a sure winner.'
Best Horror Novel of 2011―drying-ink.blogspot.com
"Unputdownable ... A page-turning, action packed, well-crafted debut novel that will take your breath away. Highly recommended."―The Founding Fields
". . . a perfectly balanced layer cake of action and horror . . . This is a stunning debut and matches the feelings I had when I first read the likes of World War Z and Hater . . . you are unlikely to experience a better crafted and adrenalin fuelled thrill ride than V.M. Zito's novel The Return Man."―Liberation Frequency
About the Author
V.M. Zito resides in Connecticut, USA with his wife and daughter. When not writing, he spends his weekdays working as Creative Director at a New England ad agency and his weekends running on forested trails. THE RETURN MAN is his first novel.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
I hope 'The Return Man' returns!
By King Reviewer
Spoiler free review here!
Simply put: I love end-of-the-world stories. Obviously so do numerous others.
So, last Friday, when I saw this book in my local bookstore, I was excited by the cover and the blurb. But I had no idea it was a zombie novel. Not until I began the first chapter did I learn this.
OK. No biggie. I've read my fair share of zombie novels by the best writers. (And some I didn't care for like others.)
Bottom line: Despite some issues I had while reading this novel, V. M. Zito grabbed my attention from the get-go, and never let up till the end. THAT in itself is a great accomplishment for a debut author. Kudos there!
Zito's writing in this genre was pretty solid, and had loads of action which I love. But it also had solid characterization, not just good guys with big muscles and big guns blowing away zombies. It is a bit more involved than that. But the pacing is outstanding. Lots of different situations when the main character, Dr. Henry Marco, along with a very badass Chinese spy, Kheng 'Ken' Wu, go on a dangerous quest for a corrupt CIA agent, deep within the badlands of California, which is now part of the western region of the US, now known as the Evacuated States, where zombie run rampant in a ravaged wasteland. The eastern states are now called the Safe Haven, where this dark shadowy agent hires Dr. Marco to find his old working acquaintance, a madman scientist genius named Roger Ballard.
This scientist may not only hold the key to the zombie virus, but may have the answers to stop the spread. But Marco must not only make it there from his homebase in Arizona, with zombies running rampant everywhere, but penetrate a huge prison facility where the mad scientist is holed up. And the race for the cure begins, with Asian spies and paramilitary biker mercs going for the gold as well.
What I liked about the novel: It was never slow or boring for me. Interesting characters, both good and bad. Lots of thrills. Loads of bloody carnage action scenes. Although, I have to say, some were very hard to picture and/or decipher at times. But most were very well executed. I liked that author Zito put a slightly different spin to his zombie story that I haven't seen before: A former doctor with a bad past, who has a quite different job now in this harsh new world, hunting down loved ones for others in the safe zone, giving them 'final rest' and closure for the ones who made it out alive. Pretty good idea. Except I wish the author would have added some type of military training to this main character. How can a mere doctor have the skills to navigate such a horrific landscape? No weapons or survival training? Should have just added in that he was an ex-Marine or something.
What the author also did very well was give the reader the creepy factor. I have to say, Zito wrote some of the best zombie scenes I can recall reading. Very graphic and in your face ripping and rending. Not for the faint hearted. For those who like the comics and/or TV show - The Walking Dead - then you should love this one.
Despite some of its flaws, which run from sometimes getting irritated with the main character, wondering how this 'border' works in the states, ie, what stops the zombie virus from spreading to the eastern states? To writing the typical scene I've seen way too many times in other books and movies: A brutal bad guy tries to kill the main character, and when the tables are turned, the main character wants to help him. (Really?! I hated that!)
But also author Zito tries to put solid heart and tortured soul into his characters. I actually liked the main character's sidekick, Chinese spy Wu. He was actually more sensible in his outlook of survival. ( No, he didn't give second chances to a bloody merc trying to kill you!) And Wu was more than a little Bruce Lee type killer. He had a past life, which the author brought to life with good effect.
I also liked the main character's past, where he once had a wife and daughter. The linking threads that the author placed out there for the reader played out very well at the end. I was expecting SOMETHING to the effect of them not really being dead. That he would find them yet still alive, and would have to save them. But the author kinda surprised me in this aspect, and it left me wanting more. And that's a good thing.
With the type of ending author Zito gave here, there should be a sequel coming. I hope so. There is lots more to explain and explore here. I, for one, would like to see Zito pen another adventure. He's a good author.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting, Action Packed and Hard to Put Down
By Regina
This is a fun book. There are some books I read that strike me so strongly as a story that would translate well into a movie. The Return Man is one of those movies. I read a lot in this genre. I love survivalist, end of society and end of world books. When I saw this title I grabbed it because it fits everything I love about an action novel. And it did not disappoint. The Return Man had me not wanting to put it down and had me thinking about the world created between its pages long after I finished.
The Return Man begins several years after the western part of the United States has fallen and succumbed to a zombie plague. The government and society has retreated to east of the Mississippi; everything west of the Mississippi has been evacuated and abandoned. The zombie plague is focused only in the USA, other countries have not (yet) experienced it. (I wasn't clear if Mexico or Canada had been effected and if not ..... why or what they were doing.) The main character of the story lives in Arizona in the house he lived in with his wife before the fall. He has fortified it and is able to jump off satellite connections and communicate with a relative living in the "safe states". The Return Man is an interesting and different take on the zombie plague compared to what I have read before. Zombies are referred to as "corpses" and they are not completely mindless. The corpses are like most zombies -- not complex and not thinking roving beings but they retain some reflexive memory of places and actions. This is explained in the book in a scientific way - - the stronger the emotional connection to a place or action, the more embedded it is in the brain and only that is retained. So a corpse will return to locations that it had a strong emotional connection to. Why is this important? Well the hero of the story is an assassin of sorts. Through his satellite internet connection to the retreated US populace in the "safe states", the hero has become a hunter of corpses that are the former loved ones of paying clients in the safe states. He uses information about his target to determine where the corpse would be emotionally pulled to and he goes after the zombie to eliminate it. Then the relatives can go on with their lives knowing that their loved ones are no longer out in the world hungry, desparate and undead. The main character travels throughout the western part of the former USA on his hunts.
So there are fights scenes and chase scenes - oh and the gore scenes. Funny enough, this is not what I like about survivalist and apocalypse themed books. So I skimmed these parts, however they are well written and with tight realistic action and humor. What's that you ask? How can I like zombie books and not love the car and train chase scenes, fight and gore scenes? I like the collapse of society novels to read about what caused the collapse, how it happened, how people survived it and how people attempt to move-on past the collapse. The Return Man has that aspect, but it also centers more on a quest that needs to take place after the partial collapse of society and the fights and battles the leads must engage in to complete their quest. There are painful memories, witty jokes bantered about and fighting.
Some other unique things about this book, there are references to both domestic and international politics. There is a themes of foreign espionage (the USA is no longer the strongest country on the planet), domestic terrorists, and the very conservative and fascist government that has arisen and is in control in the "safe states". At the same time, the main character is plagued by his own emotional loss. The reader learns about these through flashback scenes. These touches to the post-zombie world make The Return Man different and interesting. It reads like an action packed thriller but instead of chasing down international secrets about warheads - an unlikely pair is chasing down a potential cure to the zombie plague fighting off zombies, domestic terrorists and international forces.
This book was a lot of fun and I really hope there is a sequel! I believe fans of thrillers, zombie books and post-apocalyptic books will really enjoy the Return Man.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Intriguing Twist On The Zombie Tale
By TMStyles
Most readers and viewers of the zombie experience are familiar with the meandering, apparently "mindless" shuffling of the resurrected dead; indeed, this portrayal is so universal, most never question why the zombies stay in one place or why they sometimes seem to roam. But what if there were still some remnant of a memory flickering deep inside that mindless body that served as a beacon to keep it in a specific place or to compel it to return to a specific place in memory, such as home, workplace, or favorite vacation spot? This is one of the intriguing foundations of V.M. Zito's "The Return Man" which suggests that an emotional link buried somewhere deep in a resurrected zombie compels it to seek that place in memory.
Building on this foundation, Dr. Henry Marco has become "The Return Man", a kind of zombie hitman in a post-apocalyptic America, who accepts pay from human survivors living in the "safe states" East of the Mississippi, to hunt down loved ones who have been resurrected as zombies in the vast wasteland of the Western US which has experienced a Zombie Plague and is now a dangerous and deadly occupation zone for the undead. Marco uses information supplied by the living to hunt down and ultimately "kill" their zombie loved ones in an effort to provide some modicum of peace and finality to both parties. But Dr. Marco is also part of the "walking dead" in his own way as he is an emotionally damaged man haunted and mentally imprisoned by the death of his young daughter and the apparent loss/disappearance of his wife who lives in a crafted set of precarious memories in his feverish mind as he constantly seeks her body, living or dead, to "return" her, if necessary.
An instantly unlikable military man, Owen Osbourne, currently heading Homeland Security leverages Marco to travel deep into the "evacuated states" to Sarsgard Medical Prison in California to find Dr. Roger Ballard, a former colleague of Marco who was working on a vaccine and a cure for the "resurrection" when he was apparently killed, and bring back physical proof of his death. Of course, everyone seems to have hidden agendas and trust is impossible faced with this new challenge. Adding to the chaos is the appearance of Ken Wu, a Chinese spy impersonating a US soldier who joins Marco's search for Ballard for his own purposes. Throw in a multitude of unrelenting zombies, a group of human survivalist vigilantes known as the "Horsemen", and several unexpected surprises along the trek and you have the ingredients for a fast-paced, white-knuckler that will have you gasping for air at times.
Vito does an admirable job of fleshing out his characters in all their exposed humanity and the dialogue is often terse but believable. The gore count is off the charts so be forewarned but the story of emotional loss and the ultimate redemption of one's soul is compelling and fresh in this new take on the zombie story. I throughly enjoyed the book and recommend it to fans of this sub-genre.
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