Former Army Ranger and war vet Scratch Sullivan has adapted well to the zombie apocalypse. Or, as well as can be expected, considering that society has collapsed, the population is decimated, and he hunts the undead for a living. Still, he's happy enough taking the odd job killing Them and shacking up with his on and off girlfriend, Kara. But when Scratch is tipped off to an undead incursion into the safe zone he protects, he'll be forced to head straight into the heart of the badlands to save their town from utter annihilation. Along the way, he'll attract an oddball group of companions who'll help him face down hordes of undead, cannibal slavers, and a crazed militia leader who may or may not think he's Colonel Kurtz from . Scratch never asked to lead these people, but the threat he's up against is unlike anything he's faced before... and he's going to need all the help he can get.