By the Blood of Heroes by Joseph Nassise

In an alternate WWI, Michael 'Madman' Burke, a veteran American soldier with an artificial 'clockwork' arm, is assigned to go deep behind enemy lines and rescue a famous Allied pilot who has been shot down by the Germans.

Nassise (the Jeremiah Hunt Chronicles) fills the adrenaline-fueled first installment of the Great Undead War saga with an audacious mix of military fiction, steampunk, and zombies. By the Blood of Heroes is a deliciously gruesome adventure that horror and alternate history lovers, steampunk aficionados, and fans of such zombie-centric offerings as TV’s The Walking Dead, popular literature’s World War Z, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Zombie Haiku, and the Resident Evil video game and film series will eagerly devour.

When the German high command employs a terrible new chemical weapon that reanimates the dead, Allied forces must take on the Kaiser’s zombie army in order to rescue a downed American flying ace in the first book of Nassise’s The Great Undead War saga. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, set it on the blood-and-gore-soaked European battlefields of World War One, and you get By the Blood of Heroes, a wildly imaginative alternate history zombie novel by acclaimed urban fantasy author Joseph Nassise. Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of The Dragon FactoryĬombine the take-no-prisoners heroic grit of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds with the irreverent inventiveness of George A. A weapon that will come to be known as corpse gas.“Joe Nassise has raised the bar for the whole genre.” Follow the hero of The Great Undead War series, Captain Michael 'Madman' Burke, leader of Burke's Marauders, in the early days of the war, when the Germans are just beginning their field tests of a new weapon.Ī weapon that will eventually come to change the face of the war itself, that will resurrect the bodies of the dead, both friend and foe alike, and turn them into flesh-eating monsters. Here, for the first time, is the story behind the story. On May 1st, 2012 HarperVoyager released BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES, the first book in the new zombie steampunk alternate history series known as The Great Undead War by internationally bestselling author Joseph Nassise. Even that may not be enough to defeat the brilliance of the Central Powers' scientists and the advantages their advanced weapons give their troops as wave after wave of zombie soldiers are sent against the Allied front lines. A beleaguered Britain fights resolutely on, but everyone knows that without the continued support of the United States it would fall within weeks. The Central Powers control most of Europe, with only a thin stretch of French coastline still in Allied hands.

The War to End All Wars continues, with no foreseeable end in sight. The zombie apocalypse meets World War One in this exciting prequel story to BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES, book one in the Great Undead War series!

By the Blood of Heroes by Joseph Nassise