Truly an amazing saga, as told by a reporter who interviews several people affected by the zombie outbreak. The book is split into different sections, discussing the progression of the outbreak and how it affected the whole globe. There is of course some really good action describing how the zombies were fought, but what I liked too is he relates some of the human aspect of how people cope (or fail to cope) with what's going on.
The characters are interesting, and keeping it as a set of interviews was an intriguing and refreshing way to have the tale told. Max Brooks is a phenomenal writer, and has done just an amazing job with this book. A quote from the Dallas Morning News on the cover says it's "...the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles's War of the Worlds...", and I think it's a fair comparison. Okay, so maybe I disagree with it being called "topical" since there isn't a lot of zombie news lately, but the literate scare is well founded. Welles took a sense of realism to a fictional scenario and drew people in, which Brooks accomplishes here.
This is one of the better books I've read in some time, and was a real page turner that I got sucked into. I would recommend it to anyone looking for an apocalyptic zombie tale that could really unfold if zombies escape from the world of fiction.