Dead Lock

Once every three months, the inmates are given one chance to escape the fortified zombie infested island of Mortwich. One prison for men, another for women - all with the equal opportunity to win parole through a deadly race called Dead Lock. The winner gets to live as a free man or woman. The losers join the undead. Jim, Mike, Tony, and Kate, are thrown together in their desperate bid to escape. Just one question: is one of the companions just another of the many imprisoned political opponents of the government, or a serial killer? This is an alternate universe version of horror-comedy Dead Heat. For readers of the other book, this is an alternate blurb: If you could see your story in a mirror, what would it look like? Imagine the same people on the same island in a different time and place. Three strangers, not three friends. Where what is a blossoming romance in one world is a long-since finished relationship in another. In this alternate world, Mortwich Island is not a leisure facility where actors dressed as zombies chase people on corporate team building days to improve their morale. It is not where couples get married against a beautiful coastline or where the local cricket club practice. It is a maximum security prison linked to the mainland by a single heavily-fortified bridge, high cliffs, even higher walls and hundreds of zombies outside the prison gates. It is a world where the trust between friends becomes the mistrust of strangers, knowing that not everybody incarcerated by a dictatorship is innocent. Is your companion one of the many imprisoned political opponents of the government, or is he a mass murderer?