The Burning Z

Zombies invade the Black Rock desert and the Burning Man festival, while a flawed hero tries to rescue his rekindled love. The Burning Z takes us back to the source of a zombie outbreak – a pre-zombie apocalypse world – but one in which a passing zombie might not merit a second glance: the annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert.

Zombies invade the Black Rock desert and the Burning Man festival, while a flawed hero tries to rescue his rekindled love. The Burning Z takes us back to the source of a zombie outbreak – a pre-zombie apocalypse world – but one in which a passing zombie might not merit a second glance: the annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert. A mysterious meteor slams into the Black Rock desert and soon a growing number of zombies are on the loose. Bruce and Conner - hometown friends who experience sudden success early in their careers, followed by a long downward trajectory – encounter the z’s and embark on a quest across the desert to save Conner’s recently rekindled high school love who is attending Burning Man. Alan Gorman – the steadfast, retired Air Force physician with expert marksmanship and a prosthetic lower limb - endures his own odyssey trying to alert the authorities to the escalating zombie menace. It all leads to a climatic, costumed battle of the Alamo, inside Burning Man’s Black Rock City.

Clive Riddle is a life-long Californian, married and father of three, living in Modesto, California. At age 26 Riddle became CEO of a regional HMO. After a decade, he went on to found MCOL, a leading health care business information company. Riddle has authored a variety of health care reference books and business articles. He is a noted speaker at national events regarding key health care business issues. The Burning Z is his second novel, preceded by Dorris Bridge, which was released in 2010.