The Remaining by D. J. Molles
D.J. Molles , Horror , Orbit / May 30, 2014

A SOLDIER’S MISSION IN A RAVAGED WORLD: SURVIVE, RESCUE, REBUILD. In a steel-and-lead-encased bunker twenty feet below ground, a soldier waits for his final orders. On the surface, a bacterium has turned over 90% of the population into hyper-aggressive predators, with an insatiable desire to kill and feed. But now the day has come when he must open the hatch to his bunker, and step out into the chaos . It seems like only a couple of days since I was reading a book about the end of the world and the inevitable zombie apocalypse. I finished it off, picked up the next book in my review pile, and it turned out to be a book about the end of the world and the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Like I said in my last review – zombies, they’re just so hot right now! The Remaining follows Captain Lee Harden, a specially selected operative, as he attempts to fulfil his final mission. The America he grew up in has almost entirely disappeared in a matter of a few short weeks. From the ashes of society he has been tasked with starting again. Harden’s only companion is his dog, Tango, and after nearly…