Someone &hellip, or something &hellip, is stalking the citizens of Miami.First, the chief of the triage morgue at Dade County Hospital is strangled, the skulls of two homeless men are crushed under a highway overpass, followed by drug dealers, frat boys and workers at a local diner brutally bludgeoned.Detectives Issy Ruiz and Andy Molinaro can find no motive, no clues and no links among the victims, just a description of four muscular young men with fixed eyes and stiff gaits as though animated by some otherworldly force.Amidst a growing public panic and an anti-cop smear campaign by the media, with no leads, Molinaro and Ruiz turn to Dr. Robert Merriweather, one of the country&rsquo,s most prominent forensic oral and maxillofacial surgeons and Issy&rsquo,s old boss, for help.With the dogged brilliance that has become his trademark, Merriweather begins investigating possible scientific explanations for this unexplained &ldquo,zombieism&rdquo,. Along the way, he finds links between the murderers&rsquo, conditions and his own patient, a Haitian man practiced in the art of voodoo, he also realizes there&rsquo,s a much larger, more nefarious force behind the zombie murders. As Merriweather slowly begins to untangle an unholy alliance of Big Pharma, ex-military and corrupt scientists, he risks losing a dear friend&mdash,the woman he loves&mdash,and possibly even his own life._,