Wanderers (Wendig novel)
Wanderers is a 2019 novel by American author Chuck Wendig. The novel focuses on a group of people whose lives are impacted after multiple individuals begin making a zombie-esque trek across the United States. A sequel, Wayward, was published in 2022. Synopsis The book focuses on several people whose lives are irrevocably impacted when a fifteen year old girl walks out of her farmhouse towards an unknown destination. She is joined by many others, none of whom respond to external stimuli and are seemingly impervious to any external dangers. Trying to stop them only results in the individual exploding, with their captor typically dying due to flying bone shards. The CDC is called upon to investigate the Walkers, many of whom are followed by their loved ones, dubbed "Shepherds" by the media, who also follow the Walkers and have dubbed them "the Flock". One of the characters is Benji, a researcher who became disgraced after he falsified data in an attempt to stave off a potential epidemic due to unsanitary conditions in a major pork farm. While the CDC heads do not want him present, he was personally chosen by a high tech AI called Black Swan, which is used