The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten: Difference between revisions

 

When the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] hits, college boy Rufus returns to his hometown of Lake Woebegotten to warn his friends and neighbors. However, when he arrives, the situation is more complicated than he had foreseen. The town P. D. has hired Mr. Levitt, a retired school superintendent/serial killer, as their chief zombie hunter, and he's out for blood. The only force that stands in his way is a small group of vigilantes lead by Father Edsel, a Catholic priest, and Daniel Inkfist, a Lutheran pastor. Throw a couple of retired military personnel and an undead bear into the mix, and things are going to get pretty hairy.

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* [[Action Girl]]: Julie, the waitress at the local diner, turns out to be ex-Israeli military, and quite handy with a pistol.

* [[Badass Preacher]]: Father Edsel beat a fellow priest with a lead pipe after he discovered that priest molesting an altar boy, then got that ''same priest'' to listen to his confession for succumbing to the sin of wrath. There are rumors around the town that he once participated in a "real pea-souper" of an exorcism. He is the first resident of the town to kill a zombie (he blows its head off with a shotgun). He then proceeds to organize the Interfaith Anti-Zombie League to protect the town, saves at least one child from being bitten by a zombie, and finally comes up with the plan that rids the town of their infestation once and for all.

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Lampshaded when Stevie Ray points out that if he goes up into a zombie-filled attic, he'll be toast for this very reason. Subverted in that not only is Harry, the white cop, the first one of the two to die (though not in said attic), Stevie Ray makes it through the whole novel without even being injured.

* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: On the book's final page, just as the town's survivors are celebrating their victory, one last recently-turned zombie wanders into the local diner, hungry for human flesh.

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