By the Blood of Heroes: The Great Undead War: Book I [Paperback]

“Joe Nassise has raised the bar for the whole genre.”
—Jonathan Maberry,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Dragon Factory

Combine the take-no-prisoners heroic grit of Quentin Tarantino’sInglorious Basterdswith the irreverent inventiveness of George A. Romero’sDawn of the Dead, set it on the blood-and-gore-soaked European battlefields of World War One, and you getBy the Blood of Heroes, a wildly imaginative alternate history zombie novel by acclaimed urban fantasy author Joseph Nassise. When the German high command employs a terrible new chemical weapon that reanimates the dead, Allied forces must take on the Kaiser’s zombie army in order to rescue a downed American flying ace in the first book of Nassise’s The Great Undead War saga.By the Blood of Heroesis a deliciously gruesome adventure that horror and alternate history lovers, steampunk aficionados, and fans of such zombie-centric offerings as TV’sThe Walking Dead, popular literature’sWorld War Z,Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, andZombie Haiku, and theResident Evilvideo game and film series will eagerly devour.

Train them . . . Arm them . . . Then turn them loose on the zombies!

At the tail end of 1917, the Germans introduced a new type of gas to the battlefield, T-Leiche, or corpse gas, and changed the face of the war by resurrecting the bodies of the dead, giving the enemy an almost unlimited source of fresh troops.

When the American ace Major Jack Freeman—poster boy for the war against the Kaiser's undead army of shamblers—is downed over enemy lines and taken captive, veteran Captain Michael Madman Burke is the only man brave and foolish enough to accept the mission to recover Freeman. Burke assembles a team of disparate members, from his right-hand man, Sergeant Moore, to big-game-hul³$