Featured Book Trailer of the Day, Shelf Awareness "While the novel addresses serious themes of life and death, survival and living, romantic love, and friendship, FOAMERS is an incredibly enjoyable, rousing read." --Loudmouthkid62 (Maura E. Lynch blog) "Foamers is a worthy addition to the canon of postapocalyptic fiction, and like the best of such books, at its heart it's a frontier novel, brutal and exciting, celebrating individualism and self-determination. It's also a hell of a lot of fun." --Tim McLoughlin, author of Heart of the Old Country "When a screwed-up flu vaccine mutates much of humanity into mindless beasts, 'Trust your intelligence' becomes the leitmotif of a group of survivors. Fast-moving, violent, and vividly imagined, Foamers creates a dangerous world made disquietingly believable." --David Poyer, author of Stepfather Bank and The Cruiser "It's as if The Stand had a head-on bus collision with Night of the Living Dead. I want to look away, but I can't stop reading." --John Koloski, author of Bloodblind, book #1 of the Empyres trilogy Terminally diagnosed with Huntington's disease as a child, Kade coped by preparing for the Primal Age. Now in his twenties, a faulty vaccine has turned the population into bloodthirsty monsters called foamers. His group of survivors find themselves constantly caught between foamers and a warmongering paramilitary unit, forcing the group to redefine humanity in a world without law.
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Justin Kassab graduated in 2009 to the worst job market since the Great Depression: the end of the world didn't look so bad. To pass his time of being unemployed, he took an interest in survivalist skills. The hobby carried over into his writing and led to the crafting of The Primal Age Chronicles, a series of short stories and novels about the end of the world. He spends his time writing and working, with a little bit of water polo mixed in just for sanity.
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After a flu pandemic, a man with a terminal illness becomes one of the few survivors in a transformed world: "Fast-moving, violent, and vividly imagined." -David Poyer, USA Today-bestselling author of Hunter Killer
Diagnosed with Huntington's disease as a child, Kade never expected to live very long. He passed his time learning survival skills that would come in handy during a large-scale catastrophe, but didn't think he'd actually make use of them. Then, when Kade has reached his twenties, the United States is ravaged by the Feline Flu-which soon hits pandemic levels.
In desperation, a vaccine is rushed out to the public-but it only makes thing worse. It deprives its recipients of their higher functions, leaving them with only their primal urges. The resulting bloodthirsty monsters are known as foamers. And as the world around him descends into the Primal Age, Kade finds that he is expected to lead other survivors in an unrelenting fight for their lives, forced to redefine humanity in a world without law . . .
"A worthy addition to the canon of postapocalyptic fiction . . . like the best of such books, at its heart it's a frontier novel, brutal and exciting." -Tim McLoughlin, author of Heart of the Old Country
