The Last Town #2: Preparing for the Dead by Stephen Knight

Author:Stephen Knight [Knight, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller, Zombie, Horror
Published: 2014-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

ON THE ROAD, CALIFORNIA

The trip to Los Angeles had started out reasonably enough, despite the traffic on the highway. But as Jock Sinclair navigated the Maserati Ghibli westward toward the City of Angels courtesy of Interstate 15, things became more chaotic. While the eastbound traffic back toward Las Vegas was mounting, so was the traffic to the west. Sinclair had driven this particular route several times in the past few years, and it was unusual for there to be much traffic at all out here in the middle of the American desert, unless there was an accident or something similar. The radio wasn’t of much help. Even the Sirius news stations were covering the goings on in New York and Europe, with a smattering of tidbits about Asia and the Middle East. It appeared Russia and great swaths of China had gone dark, despite the Russians launching perhaps the biggest artillery action in history to try and defend Moscow. And the reports that the Russians had been trying to stop a horde of zombies was enough to make Sinclair smirk as he squinted against the setting sun.

Zombies? Has the entire world gone completely mad?

Ensconced in the comfort of the Ghibli—a car Sinclair merely tolerated, as he felt an Aston Martin would have been much more sensible—it was easy for him to pooh-pooh the world’s troubles, despite the traffic. Now, with Las Vegas almost three hours behind him, he had calmed down a bit since he and Meredith had set out. Perhaps, he was beginning to think, he had overreacted in insisting they leave Las Vegas that very minute. With things being what they were in Los Angeles, it would have made more sense to try and launch his broadcast from the local television studio. And with traffic being what it was, making it to Los Angeles in time was now simply out of the question. Sinclair had tried to call his superiors at the cable news network to inquire as to alternatives, but his voice mails had gone unreturned. That was troubling. Even calling through the switchboard and selecting random extensions hadn’t netted him a single answered call. Likewise, his attempts to contact his people in Los Angeles had failed as well.

“Jock, maybe we need to go somewhere else,” Meredith said finally, as the car rolled forward at speeds alternating between twenty-five miles per hour and a dead stop. “We could go up to San Francisco.”

“Oh, don’t be such a stupid twat,” Sinclair snapped. “I realize you love San Francisco, but it’s a town full of faggots and people with oatmeal for brains.” The fact that it was a chilly city that reminded him a little too much of Britain went unsaid.

“It could be safe there,” Meredith said. “We haven’t heard anything about San Francisco on the radio, maybe everything’s still normal there.”

“Yes, normal with a possibility of being buggered,” Sinclair said. “We’re going to Los Angeles, Meredith. End of discussion. Now I suggest you lean back and enjoy the ride.

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