Wetwork

In 1989 expatriate English entertainment journalist Philip Nutman made a startling fiction debut with his first published short story, Wet Work, which appeared in the best-selling John Skipp & Craig Spector-edited anthology, Book of the Dead. Although it was one of the shortest pieces in the volume, Wet Work, with its O Henry-style twist ending and sentient zombie assassin protagonist, immediately proved itself to be a fan favorite. At the urging of his then literary agent, Lori Perkins, and dozens of readers who wrote they wanted to learn more about his vision of a Romeroesque universe where the dead are starting to control and feed off the living, Nutman developed the concept into an apocalyptic novel.

Sold to Putnam/Berkley on the strength of a 16-page outline when he was 26 years old, Wet Work became an overnight success, and as a paperback original went through two printings, selling over 80,000 copies in under two years.

Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies