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“Hands down one of the best zombie novels I’ve read in a long, long time. From first 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 and Hater
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“Zito expertly piles on thrills, cliffhangers, and numerous twists, investing, renewed life into the shambling, cliché-ridden corpse of the zombie subgenre.”
— Guardian (London)
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“Anyone familiar with The Walking Dead, Day of the Dead, or countless other zombie franchises will fell right at home under the undead covers of Zito’s debut novel. Zito puts a new twist on the zombie myths with his bounty hunter hero, who springs from the postapocalyptic roots of Matheson, Romero, and King.”
— RT Book Reviews (4 stars)
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“Thrilling, melancholy, and stomach-churningly gory…Zito amps up the action with a nightmarish showdown in the bowels of an abandoned prison…This is a sturdy and crowd-pleasing novel that squarely hits its target.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Zito’s debut is stunning, a harrowing, haunting, and beautifully written novel that belongs on the very top shelf of the zombie canon alongside Max Brooks’ World War Z, Mira Grant’s Feed series, and the groundbreaking Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”
— Library Journal
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'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
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Thrilling, melancholy, and stomach-churningly gory... This is a sturdy and crowd-pleasing novel that squarely hits its target.
— Publishers Weekly
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A hair-raising quest ... Zito expertly piles on thrills, cliffhangers and numerous twists ...
— The Guardian (UK)
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An overload of thrills, spills and adventure.
— The Sun (UK)
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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
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Zombies, action, and overlapping schemes make this a sure winner.
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Best Horror Novel of 2011—drying-ink.blogspot.com
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Unputdownable ... A page-turning, action packed, well-crafted debut novel that will take your breath away. Highly recommended.
— The Founding Fields
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. . . 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
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