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It’s Halloween and Danny wants to supply you with this captivating book, “World War Z”, written by Max Brooks. Brad Pitt’s production company has bought the rights to this book so a film could perhaps be fashioned after this enthralling book.

Many gave this book 5 stars. Here’s what some of these readers had to say:

• “As close as possible to what happened when civilization as we knew it almost became obliterated.”
  — General Daniel Markert, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

• “Utterly compelling. So absorbing it was impossible for me to put down. It was as if I were reliving the Dark Years.” —Karl Beck, former President of the European Union

• “The medical emergency we faced during the Walking Plague has not ever been conveyed, realistically and appropriately, like this. I couldn’t read the final page without weeping.”
  — Dr. Arnold Singh, U.S. Surgeon General during the Crisis

• “For years, we have bulldogged a story that ‘mainstream’ media strangely soft-pedaled. This is a significant milestone in having the Dark Years documented.”
  — Nell Sagina, Director of Radio Free Earth

A book synopsis:
New York, NY, May 31, 2006—The documentation of the Crisis in the United Nation’s Postwar Commission Report, while somewhat factual, only seemed to tell half the story. Critics, analysts, and survivors agreed that the real tragedy of the plague years has yet to be told. Until now.

Max Brooks’s captivating histography, WORLD WAR Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Crown Publishers, on sale September 12, 2006), is a factual, compelling, and moving account of one survivor’s extraordinary journey around the globe to document the ten-year Zombie War that almost caused our extinction. Brooks’s remarkable retelling of the Dark Years is what you didn’t read in the UN Postwar Commission report and is a revealing look at the world when it was at the edge of its death.

Capturing frightening testimonies from men, women, and some children who faced the undead, some of the still-discussed issues you will be enlightened about from WORLD WAR Z include:

• how the Walking Plague was initially covered up by corrupt governments
• why the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services downplayed the Great Panic
• the ultimate uselessness of the Zombie Protection Act (still very much a controversial topic)
• a zealous American President’s mistake in putting his party’s needs in an election year ahead of the safety of his people
• In gripping detail, Brooks marks the beginning of the enormous uber-plague that brought the dead back to life.

By documenting numerous stories from around the globe, from Denver to South Africa, Sydney to Yonkers, Malibu to India, WORLD WAR Z tells about the sacrifices people made to defend their cities, towns, and villages from a plague that seemed virtually impossible to stop. Giving us an exclusive look at the key military strategies of commanders in the field and the military intelligence that helped them take our world back, an important window is opened for us onto the battle of all battles as Brooks replays it all before us.

WORLD WAR Z is Max Brooks’s life work. Logging countless hours of travel to capture and preserve first-hand experiences from the Dark Years, Brooks records in great detail the one aspect that has been neglected in all previous retellings of this war: the human dimension to this struggle and the extraordinary job our race did in ultimately coming together to reign triumphant.

The TWELVE (12) winners will be drawn on November 1st, 2006 (two winners per hour of Danny’s show) and will be posted here by November2, 2006.

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For more information, visit “The Official World War Z Website: hwww.randomhouse.com/crown/worldwarz