The Darker Saints — Brian Hodge

ZOMBI

The rain beats down on the hot New Orleans streets… A derelict staggers, no longer a man, but an empty vessel poured full of voodoo…

This is the land of lace curtains and Mardi Gras. This is the world of the bayou and sizzling crawfish and a man in white who can kill at any distance.

A storm of corporate greed and human cruelty has descended on New Orleans, on a young advertising executive who has sold more than products, on a weary ex-CIA man, and on a Caribbean servant on the run from enemies he cannot understand. Two powerful businessmen, one legitimate, one a criminal, have built a common empire. Now it is coming apart, scattering blood and broken bones, flooding the Delta with voodoo -- the dark magic of dark saints…