Book description
An act of terrorism has unleashed anthrax on the city of Atlanta,
killing hundreds of thousands.
The young illustrator Finn Darby managed to survive the attack, whilst
many of his friends weren't so lucky. But soon afterwards, Finn develops
a disturbing affliction - when he starts to blurt things out in a
strange voice beyond his control.
Countless other residents of Atlanta are experiencing a similar bizarre
problem. Either all of Atlanta is suffering from a total psychological
breakdown, or else the dead are returning to possess the living . . .
Moving, chilling and thoroughly gripping, Hitchers is a tale about a
world in crisis - and about the dead not being ready to stay that way.
Will McIntosh is a Hugo award winner and Nebula finalist whose short
stories have appeared in Asimov's
(where he won the 2010 Reader's Award for short story), Strange Horizons
and Interzone
, among others. He worked as a psychology professor in the Southeastern
US, but now writes full time. He lives with his wife and their 3
year-old twins, in Williamsburg, Virginia.
