As winter sets in and AmericaтАЩs survivors struggle to rebuild a semblance of civilization, terrifying new enemies are gatheringтАФboth in the lawless badlands and within the walls of the safe zone. Most fearsome of all is the тАЬKing of the Dead.тАЭ His zombified troupe of sideshow curiosities is but a fraction of his growing pack. The ReaperтАЩs quest to safeguard the humans he has befriended places him on the trail of these feral undead. But he is sorely unprepared for the return of the zombie transformed by his own flesh, the OmegaтАФa fiend driven by something more sinister than any virus.
Meanwhile, DeathтАЩs questions about his origin haunt him, and he is close to the answers... but the worst of both the living and the dead are rising in his path, and heтАЩll have to cut them all down to reach the cosmic endgame.