
But Benny doesn’t see what everyone else sees. He’s a hunk who carries a Katana a tough guy with a gentle heart. The mayor and the sheriff are his biggest fans while Benny’s friends put him on a pedestal. Tom Imura is a venerated zombie killer, a bounty hunter, with the best reputation in town. But when he fails at everything else, and only days are left to find a job, he has no choice but to join his brother. The last thing he wants to do is train within his brother’s vocation. Fence tester, zombie artist, lock technician, anything that’s available and doesn’t seem too hard. He tries out a number of jobs with his best friend Chong. If he doesn’t, his rations will be cut in half. Now that Benny is fifteen, he and his friends must find jobs. Food is grown, adults have jobs and responsibilities, and children go to school. Inside the walls of this safe zone, life resumes as normal. The brothers live in the safe community of Mountainside where a number of survivors reside. Although Benny was only eighteen months old at the time, it left a memory that burned deep within him and caused an emotional rift between him and his brother that grew wider with each passing year. On First Night, the night when the world awoke to a zombie attack, Benny’s mother had handed him to Tom and told him to run. They share the same Japanese American father who remarried Benny’s mother while Tom was barely twenty. Benny Imura is a fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his older half-brother Tom. The world of Rot & Ruin is set about fifteen years after a zombie apocalypse.

Author Jonathan Maberry recently announced via Twitter that Rot & Ruin is now set to become a major motion picture.


He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and adventure and he writes for adults, teens, and middle grade. Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer.
