The Dead Will Decide: They made perfection. It only wanted brains.

By Lorenzo Bayless Clayton

They promised perfection.

The Black-Box program built Echo-units - cloned soldiers engineered to never tire, never falter, never fail. Dr. Elara Kane called it evolution. General Heller called it the future of war.

But Sergeant Major Cole Maddox saw what they really became.

It started with a single patient in a hospital ER. One bite. One moan for brains. Then it spread city to city, faster than bullets, fire, or bombs could stop it. Napalm couldn't. Nuclear fire couldn't. Humanity's weapons only turned the world to ash.

Now Cole leads the last survivors through a wasteland of fallout and moaning dead. With his brother Noah, a mother and her boy, he walks the long mile through ruin - hunted by the infected, betrayed by the leaders who burned their own cities, and haunted by the shadow of Echo, the perfect soldier turned monster.

History won't decide the end of the world.

The dead will.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FVBB5DTV
• ISBN13: 9798268917451
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"