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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Maberry, Jonathan.
Dust & decay / Jonathan Maberry. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: In post-apocalyptic America, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura and his friends set out into the great Rot & Ruin hoping to find a better future but are soon pitted against zombies, wild animals, insane murderers, and the horrors of Gameland.
ISBN 978-1-4424-0235-5 (hardcover)
[1. Zombies—Fiction. 2. Survival—Fiction. 3. Bounty hunters—Fiction. 4. Brothers—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: Dust and decay.
PZ7.M11164Dus 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2010050305
ISBN 978-1-4424-0237-9 (eBook)

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