Zombie War: An account of the zombie apocalypse that swept across America Read Online Free PDF Page B

receiver suddenly jinked off his right foot and burst away from his cover, running fast towards the Packers end zone. The quarterback threw the pass and the ball sailed on a perfect arc through the air.
    Seventy-six thousand fans rose to their feet, following the trajectory of the spiraling ball and holding their breath.
    The hands of the Instructor’s wristwatch ticked over to one fifty-nine pm.
    He rose calmly from his seat and reached into the pocket of his jeans. In his hand was a small leather case. He unzipped the opening. Inside was a small syringe and the vial of virus the Russian scientist had given him at the desert training camp.
    The Instructor filled the syringe and glanced at the clock. He began to count down the seconds. His hands began to shake.
    “Allah be praised.”
    The Instructor felt the prick of the needle pierce his skin, and his vision began to blur. He heard the crowd cry out in a sudden roar of wild excitement followed by a thunder of applause that seemed to roll around the stadium like a great wave of sound.
    It was two o’clock.
     
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    Sun Life Stadium was the perfect killing ground – a vast press of bodies confined by seats and choke points at the entrance gates.
    That was the Instructor’s last thought as he fell back in his seat, suddenly dead.
    No one noticed.
    Two minutes later he got to his feet.
    It was the instant that America was changed forever.
    The zombie lunged for a young blonde woman close beside it. The girl was in her twenties. She was swinging her t-shirt above her head and bouncing up and down in the narrow space between the seats. She was wearing a black bra. Her skin was honey brown, gilded by the Miami sun. The zombie grabbed her by the arm and the girl screamed. The zombie reefed the woman off balance, and as she turned her face and saw the hideous thing that held her, it lunged and tore at her nose and eyes. Flesh ripped, blood gushed. The girl thrashed and kicked. Blood sprayed high into the air and spattered like rain across the shoulders of the people nearby. The girl screamed again. The zombie had spat out her nose and had its hands tangled in the hair at the back of the girl’s head, holding her still while it bit at her eyes and the soft flesh of her cheek. The girl fell to the ground, her body awash with blood.
    The zombie roared. It was a high-pitched snarling sound. Blood spilled down its chin. It turned its head, saw another woman. This one was older. She was standing beside two young children. The zombie hurled itself at the woman and she went crashing backwards to the hard concrete. The zombie tore at her chest with its clawed fingers. The woman’s heels tapped spasmodically on the ground as the ghoul dug into her flesh and tried to tear out her heart.
    People started to scream. A man stepped forward and grabbed the ghoul by the shoulders. The zombie turned and snarled at the man. He tried to back away but it was too late. The zombie dropped down onto its haunches and then lunged to attack. The guy went over backwards, tripping over a chair and crashing into other spectators. He was crying out in fear. Around him other people began to move away in panic. The zombie retched up fresh blood. Its eyes were red and crazed. It sank its teeth into the man’s arm and tore away shreds of flesh until the bone was exposed.
    The screams became louder. A ripple of frantic movement seemed to spread out through the vast crowd, as if rocks had been thrown into a calm lake. The ripples reached out and eventually collided, just as the panicked people did in the stadium. Suddenly the sound of cheers became the high keening wail of terror. People were crushed as they clawed and fought their way towards the exits. Children were left behind or lost by their parents. The weak and elderly were trampled. White panic spread within the stadium until the sound of their collective voices was a wail of mortal fear and horror.
    The zombies raged through the dense press of bodies,