Z-fari (Paperback)

In the not-so-distant future, there are parts of the country that are infested by zombies. These areas are walled off for the protection of the people, but these areas are so infested by the undead that it is impossible to completely wipe out the zombie scourge. There are brave troops, the Border Patrol, who patrol these borders and have the firepower to eliminate any zombie threat. This is the story of two of those Troopers and how it all goes terribly wrong.

Stephen James Messenger is a public school educator who has taught at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. He earned a BA from Knox College, an M.Ed from Pan-American University, and an Ed.D. from the University of Houston. Dr. Messenger's interests include investigating Mexican folkart, British motorcycles, Dead studies, Jamband culture, and Community Music, telling and singing stories and songs, and learning and playing North American roots and Celtic music (he plays 6- & 12-string guitars, bass, mandolin, octave mandolin, banjo, saz, and bodhran). He writes escapist, darkly comedic novels, like Z-fari and Follet, and has edited and co-written a peer-reviewed textbook, Community Music Today (with Veblen, Silverman, and Eliot) along with numerous scholarly articles and chapters in academic journals.