World War Z

published in 2006
by Max Brooks

Brooks uses the introduction of this book to set up the story line in a really interesting way. It is a epilogue/prologue sort of thing really, where he sets up the scene by starting in the "present" and looking back into the terrible times of the Zombie War. This is effective because Brooks creates a setting for readers and heads start into the actual storyline, unlike a previous book which I have only attempted to read. Brooks heads straight into the past with the beginning of the "outbreak". Already, I like this book cause the plot is easy to see, fiction is better than nonfiction in my opinion because of how thigs like this can be done. Brook just dives into his description of the "outreak" as if his readers already know what hes talking about. Since this is a fictional account, it would make since to fictional characters. But seeing as how this is real lfe, the beginning of the book is already filled with suspense. "The first outbreak I saw was in a remote village that officially had no name." This is his first sentence, and if I were a reader who had not read the background information, I would be reading on and on to find out more about the outbreak, which I am still doing even though I did read the background information.