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Funny enough, this is not what I like about survivalist and apocalypse themed books.

So there are fights scenes and chase scenes – oh and the gore scenes. The main character travels throughout the western part of the former USA on his hunts. Then the relatives can go on with their lives knowing that their loved ones are no longer out in the world hungry, desparate and undead. He uses information about his target to determine where the corpse would be emotionally pulled to and he goes after the zombie to eliminate it. Through his satellite internet connection to the retreated US populace in the "safe states", the hero has become a hunter of corpses that are the former loved ones of paying clients in the safe states. Why is this important? Well the hero of the story is an assassin of sorts. So a corpse will return to locations that it had a strong emotional connection to. This is explained in the book in a scientific way - the stronger the emotional connection to a place or action, the more embedded it is in the brain and only that is retained. The corpses are like most zombies - not complex and not thinking roving beings but they retain some reflexive memory of places and actions.

Zombies are referred to as "corpses" and they are not completely mindless. The Return Man is an interesting and different take on the zombie plague compared to what I have read before. He has fortified it and is able to jump off satellite connections and communicate with a relative living in the "safe states". why or what they were doing.) The main character of the story lives in Arizona in the house he lived in with his wife before the fall.

(I wasn’t clear if Mexico or Canada had been effected and if not …. The zombie plague is focused only in the USA, other countries have not (yet) experienced it. The government and society has retreated to east of the Mississippi everything west of the Mississippi has been evacuated and abandoned. The Return Man begins several years after the western part of the United States has fallen and succumbed to a zombie plague. The Return Man had me not wanting to put it down and had me thinking about the world created between its pages long after I finished. When I saw this title I grabbed it because it fits everything I love about an action novel. I love survivalist, end of society and end of world books. There are some books I read that strike me so strongly as a story that would translate well into a movie. The Return Man had me not wanting to put it down and had me thinking about the world created between its pages long af 3.5 Stars.