** spoiler alert ** 
 This is not just a story about a war with zombies. It is a retrospective socio political, economic, emotional and anthropological study of a war with zombies. At first i thought the fragmented style; of interviews with random people involved in various aspects of the zombie wars, would interfere with the narrative flow but i was wrong. Brooks is pretty good at telling a tale broken into a series of interviews. My one gripe is that he never went into the meat of how the zombies came about in the first place. Too much speculation, not enough science behind the fiction.