Vertical City, A Zombie Thriller Part 1 by George S. Mahaffey, Jr. is obviously about zombies. It does have a different take on the survivalist's methods. I gave it five stars. It's fast moving & edgy with action. I found it riveting.

Wyatt was three when the change took place. As he, his parents & some neighbors were escaping, his mother told him: "'Can you do something for me when we go through that door?' Another nod from me. 'Whatever you do, do not look down, okay? Keep your eyes on mommy. Do. Not. Look. Down.' For the first time real fear panged me & my eyes began to get misty as I caught sight of my father, a broad-shouldered man who'd never shown a modicum of emotion in all the time I'd known him, begin to weep. Whether he was crying for himself or us, or simply because the mini-empire he'd built was likely on the verge of collapse, I didn't know, but it hardly mattered."

They got into a helicopter but it crashed. They were trapped on a "concrete island as a struggle for survival raged below." They sealed the building off at the tenth floor & waited for help to arrive. None came. That was where they made their home. It had been sixteen years ago.

"Initially, the newly-risen dead were called 'The Woken' but then Del Frisco got tired of having to say the 'double u' in the first letter of 'Woken,' & shortened it to 'Dub,' & then the 'Dubs' (my suggestion) which is what pretty much everyone calls them now."

Wow! Read in one sitting, it went too fast. Now I'll have to get the other three parts.

I received a complimentary kindle copy from Amazon. That did not change my opinion for this review. ( )