World War Z

published in 2006
by Max Brooks

Brooks is very technical with his descriptions of the zombie menace. He creates his image of them by revealing a different aspect of them in each perspective he uses in this book. One perspective comes from a smuggler. This smuggler had an influx of a new sort of trade because of the outbreak, people. He specified in land smuggling. He knew that the exchange of people increased the risk of becoming infected because an infected person would travel to search for a "cure" and possibly turn somewhere along the way into a zombie and most likely infecting others. There were also other ways people could be unknowingly infected. So many people undergo medical operations all the time. When people get blood transfusions or organs, the origin of those items could come from anywhere. Those origins sometimes happen to be from an infected person, but only problem is that they look just like any other person at first. Another account describes the physiology of the zombies. Everyone pretty much focused on studying their behavior but a few actually were in the field to apply this information. The information were just tips, such as zombies moan when they get a scent, zombies move at a slow pace, zombies are not smart, and things like that.