First published 2009
The Imperial prison barge Purge carries five hundred criminals through deep space when its engines fail. Captain and crew spot a drifting Star Destroyer that might provide salvage parts. A boarding party ventures across to strip what they can from the abandoned vessel. Only half return, and they bring back something deadly. A plague spreads through the Purge within hours, killing almost everyone aboard in gruesome fashion. Six people survive the initial outbreak: two young brothers, the brutal guard captain, a pair of smugglers, and the ship's female medical officer. They soon discover that death marks only the first stage of their ordeal. The corpses throughout their ship begin to move again, driven by an insatiable hunger for living flesh. The survivors must return to the empty Star Destroyer to find answers, but the massive ship holds terrors beyond their imagination. The walking dead pursue them through corridors and chambers, relentless in their need to feed.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, horror, action
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, survival
Setting: Star Destroyer, Purge
288 pages · Hardcover · LucasBooks
Content warnings: body-horror, gore, graphic-violence