"Mountain of Fire (Black Tide Rising #13)" by Jason Cordova
https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Fire-Black-Tide-Rising/dp/1668072882

Book number thirteen of an fifteen book zombie apocalypse series by John
Ringo and friends. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB
published by Baen in 2025 that I purchased new from Amazon. I own the
next available book in the series already and will read it soon. BTW,
the first book in the series is part of my six star book list.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147673660X

Really, really good series on a zombie apocalypse caused by a human
engineered flu virus with a rabies virus payload. The engineered flu
virus is deadly itself with 20% fatality rate but if you survive that,
the rabies virus takes over and fries your brain. After a couple of
months, over 99.99% of the world population is infected and/or dead.
The second half of the book is about clearing the zombies by reducing
the problem to a manageable level and working through it.

Steve Smith, a school teacher and retired Australian Paratrooper, gets a
bug out text message from his brother, confirms it, buys a used 45 foot sailboat, moves his family and a lot of supplies to the boat in the New
York Harbor. His brother, the chief of security at a New York City
bank, sends along more supplies. His daughters end up helping to make
vaccine for the virus using spinal cords from infected "primates"
(humans). Even with getting quite a few people vaccinated, NYC
eventually falls to the zombies, and the bank skyscraper is abandoned.
Steve and family sail for the Caribbean where they find that the islands
are all overrun with zombies and so are thousands of boats, ships, and
cruise liners.

This book about the surviving students at St. Dominic?s Preparatory
School for Girls in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Originally
500+ students and several nuns, now at 30 students, one nun, and hiding
from the zombies, or shamblers as Sister Ann calls them. More than just trying to survive, they are trying to start the rebuild of society.

Publication Order of Black Tide Rising Books by John Ringo, Charles
Gannon, Mike Massa, Jason Cordova, and Gary Poole:
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/black-tide-rising/

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (421 reviews)

Lynn


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