Newsflesh · Book 3
Deadline
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 584
- ISBN-13
- 9781841498997
- Type
- novel
About this book
Deadline continues the Mason siblings' story as the second Newsflesh novel, published in 2011 at 584 pages. Mira Grant has described it as a medical thriller with zombies, escalating the rigorously science-grounded outbreak mythology -- the Kellis-Amberlee virus, blood-testing checkpoints, amplification thresholds -- established in Feed.
Its place in Newsflesh
Deadline is book 3 in the Newsflesh series. It follows Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box. It is followed by Countdown. See the full Newsflesh reading order.
Twenty-some years after two well-meaning cures -- one for cancer, one for the common cold -- combined to accidentally create a virus that reanimates the dead, humanity has adapted. Blogging, not broadcast news, is the trusted press, since bloggers proved they'd report the truth about the outbreak when traditional media wouldn't. Feed opens Newsflesh with bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason, adoptive siblings running a news team, landing the assignment of a lifetime covering a presidential campaign in a world where…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781841498997