About the book: year / It’s hard to be alive. Being human is even more difficult. But since R returned to life, he has been making progress: learning to read, talk, maybe even love. The dead population of the town also shows signs of life. R can even imagine his future with Julie, the girl who made his heart beat again and who raised a new world from the ashes. But now helicopters are coming from over the horizon. Some people want to restore order and plunge the world into silence again. Return everything to its place, return to the good old days of stability and control, when the strong devoured the weak. Zombies were never his only weapon. How to fight the enemy that is inside each of us? Can this world ever be changed again? Julie's home is invaded, and she and a group of survivors must plunge into the underworld of a devastated America in search of answers. But there are answers that R doesn't want to know at all. His past life is creeping out of the basement like a shadow…