By the Blood of Heroes by Joseph Nassise

By the Blood of Heroes is a deliciously gruesome adventure that horror and alternate history lovers, steampunk aficionados, and fans of such zombie-centric offerings as TV s The Walking Dead, popular literature s World War Z, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Zombie Haiku, and the Resident Evil video game and film series will eagerly devour.' 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. Romero s Dawn of the Dead, set it on the blood-and-gore-soaked European battlefields of World War One, and you get By the Blood of Heroes, a wildly imaginative alternate history zombie novel by acclaimed urban fantasy author Joseph Nassise. Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of The Dragon FactoryĬombine the take-no-prisoners heroic grit of Quentin Tarantino s Inglorious Basterds with the irreverent inventiveness of George A. As he ruthlessly tracks the Necromancer through this world and the next, Cade can't help but ask himself what Logan might want with a half-dead woman and the man who had literally traveled to hell and back to rescue her.Joe Nassise has raised the bar for the whole genre. It is perhaps the one act that could rouse Cade from the grey haze his life has become. Given the difficulty the Order had in capturing him the first time, the assignment to track Logan down falls to those who know him best - Captain Riley and the newly reformed Echo Team.īut rather than waiting for Echo to coming looking for him, the Necromancer takes the battle to them instead luring former Commander Williams away from his home and stealing the physical form of his wife, Gabrielle, a woman caught somewhere between life and death. In a daring prison break, he frees himself from Templar control and vanishes into the night. It is the moment Simon Logan, former leader of the Council of Nine and the man once known as the Necromancer, has been waiting for. As a result, command of Echo has passed to the newly-promoted Captain Riley. Knight Commander Cade Williams managed to survive his journey deep into the heart of the Beyond and his subsequent confrontation with the Adversary, but he has returned a changed man his thirst for vengeance quenched but his spirit broken.

Estimates suggest it will take years for the Order to recover.Įven Echo Team has been decimated its ranks reduced by half.

The dead line the halls of the local commanderies and the survivors are both physically and spiritually exhausted. The Templars have emerged victorious following their battle with the Chiang Shih, but paid a high price in doing so. The long-awaited return to the Templar Chronicles urban fantasy series from the internationally bestselling author of Eyes To See and By the Blood of Heroes!

By the Blood of Heroes by Joseph Nassise