It begins with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases start to multiply and what looks like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginning of a revolution, soon reveals itself to be much, much worse. Looking into a future of mindless man-eating horror, humanity has to accept the logic of world government and face events that tests our sanity and our sense of reality. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and key players in the ten-year fight against the horde, World War Z brings the finest traditions of journalism to bear on what is surely the most incredible story in the history of human civilisation.