Year of the Zombie (Book 4): Z-Hunt by Tufo Mark

Author:Tufo, Mark [Tufo, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Infected Books
Published: 2016-03-30T04:00:00+00:00

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‘Dietrich, I don’t know how I feel about this. I know all of them; they’re good people.’ She had called her husband and recapped Zurgens’ plan to him.

‘He’s right, Jan. The judge is in our pocket but he’s still hearing out the zombie rights activist arguments. Even if everything goes perfectly on your end, I don’t know how much longer we’re going to be able to continue what we’re doing. A couple of years at the most. If it goes south now and we lose that money, we won’t be able to pay off the officials what we’ve promised, and you could easily shave a year off that timeline. We need to make our money while we can, buy that island we’ve been talking about, and retire. It’s our only way out. I wish I was there honey; I know you’re in a tough spot. Let Zurgens earn some of that huge salary we’re paying him.’

‘This is a little different from turning rapists and murderers into zombies, Dietrich. These are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. They’re war survivors; they deserve better.’

There was long pause on the other end.

‘What aren’t you telling me?’ she asked her husband.

‘We’ve nearly depleted the entire viable prison population. Nearly six months ago, in fact, Jan.’

‘What? What are you talking about? We haven’t missed a single hunt!’

‘I knew you wouldn’t be onboard, and I didn’t want to upset you.’

‘Wait. Just who have we been hunting then?’

Another pause.

‘Dietrich...tell me.’

‘Mostly vagrants and the insane we’ve collected from the streets.’

Jan sat down heavily on her bed. She was feeling light-headed all of a sudden. ‘Jesus, Dietrich, we’re murdering people.’

‘They’re indigent and psychotic.’

‘Oh! That makes it okay. Silly me, I should have realized that.’

‘James Jenkins is U.S. Senator Jenkins’ son, in case you don’t remember. If this hunt doesn’t go well, he tells dear old daddy and we lose one of our biggest supporters in the most influential country in the world. That happens and the watchdogs close right in. Zurgens is right. We could be on the run, wanted for crimes I can’t even begin to list. We’re in too deep.’

Panic flared in Jan’s voice. ‘When did this become okay? How could I have signed off on this?’

‘Just give Zurgens the order. Get some sleep, it will all be over tomorrow. The next hunt isn’t for another week; by then our regular supply will have started back up.’

‘Supply? You make it sound so antiseptic.’

‘It’s a business, Jan. And it’s our business.’

‘Serving pancakes is a business, selling furniture is a business. We are murderers, Dietrich. Do you think the people getting shot in the forehead view it as just a business?’

Dietrich stayed on the line for a few more minutes trying to calm and console his wife. When he hung up, he immediately called Zurgens.

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