When the Imperial prison barge Purgeâ??temporary home to five hundred of the galaxyâ??s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thievesâ??breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come backâ??bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.And death is only the beginning. The Purgeâ??s half-dozen survivorsâ??two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on boardâ??will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing
… read more...can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isnâ??t really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.From the Hardcover edition.Read More read less...