Jasper Bark - Way of the Barefoot Zombie (Abaddon Books)
Would you like to be more successful in life? How many times have you wished your bank account sported more digits in front of the decimal point? What extremes are you willing to go to in order to become super-mega rich and powerful? Are you willing to learn how to accomplish all this and more? Then you need to go to St. Ignatius and let Doc Papa teach you the Way of the Barefoot Zombie!
It only takes an initial investment of $5 million to become stinking rich and disgustingly powerful. For this modest fee you will learn how to stifle all emotion so you can crush the competition. You’ll be served exotic foods (human flesh), meet interesting people (zombies) and you’ll even get to make a deposit into Doc Papa’s soul bank! There is a catch. You’ll have to learn to interact, even to imitate and mingle, with the soulless, hungry undead. You’ll rub shoulders and share meals with them, but if you slip you become the meal. And you lose your $5 million. Sorry, no refunds.
Now that you’ve come this far, you only have one thing to worry about. The Zombie Liberation Front is out to free the zombies, or noble monsters as they refer to them, and put an end to this little enterprise. As if that’s not enough, there are other sub-plots brewing that make this book an amazing thrill ride. Jasper Bark is a brilliant writer who keeps his audience on the edge of their seats and guessing who will eat who next. The characters are wild, outrageous and totally realistic in their roles. Crazy shit happens, to be sure, but it’s all fun and, well, you get to witness mass carnage as zombies do what they do best; eat the living. Writing this book was definitely one of Jasper’s best decisions. Now if we could just get him to decide how he wants us to spell his name… Jim Dodge Jr.
