Reunion of the Dead: A Jack Hawkins Novel - Book Two

By Dr. William Horton

p>One year ago, Jack Hawkins turned a gymnasium into a battlefield. Tonight, the whole town is invited back.

The anniversary dinner is supposed to be a quiet one - a keynote, a memorial plaque, a sheet cake nobody has to bleed for this time. Then a guest collapses near the snack table, gets back up wrong, and a contained outbreak forty minutes away stops being someone else's containment failure and becomes tonight's problem.

Jack knows how to hold a room. What he's never had before is a partner who can hold two hundred frightened minds steady while he holds the door - First Sergeant Elias Cole, the quiet, unassuming "Legion commander" nobody in town ever looked at twice, about to prove exactly why that was always a mistake.

"The dead don't negotiate. That's what makes the living so dangerous, if they remember how." -Elias Cole

What readers are stepping into:

The breakout book for Cole - psyops, crowd psychology, and unassuming competence finally taking center stageA hard tonal swerve: it opens as a hometown reunion drama and ends as a full-blown siegeReal crisis-negotiation and NLP technique applied to something the negotiator can't talk downDry, gallows humor that never lets the book take itself too seriously - think Die Hard energy dropped into a zombie siegeA government cover-up thread that carries straight into book three

SOON TO BE A MOTION PICTURE BY COMFORT ZONE FILMS.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H96P2T2Y
• ISBN13: 9798186834991
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"