A police chief ventures outside one of the last pockets of civilization to confront a monstrous evil in this postapocalyptic crime thriller.
Ten years after the world’s oil went sour and a pandemic killed most of the population, Sam Edison is the chief of police of The Little Five, a walled-in community near Atlanta, Georgia. Now the few who survive share the world with the hollow-heads: formerly human cannibals who hunt anything living for food.
When a pregnant teenager is murdered shortly after arriving at The Little Five, Chief Edison discovers that she was fleeing a life of sexual slavery. Her personal nightmare is over. But when the mayor’s stepdaughter is abducted, the trail leads Chief Edison to the horrifying realization that the entire city of Athens is engaged in human trafficking. Now will have to save the young girl and somehow make it back home, evading monsters both human and non-human all the way.
Kevin A. Muñoz grew up just outside of Philadelphia. After wandering across the country for a few years, he received a PhD from Emory University in 2008. A little later, he decided to leave the academic life behind to pursue his first passion: writing. He has lived in seven US states over the years, observing and adopting each new place as settings and inspiration for his fiction. He spent fifteen years in Georgia, where the seeds of The Post were planted. He now lives near Seattle with his two beagle traveling companions.