Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family is still alive and endures many horrors along the way.

"Rick Grimes was a small-town police officer. Then the world fell to the walking dead. But the dead were only the start... and a new tale of alien horror begins here."

"Clementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge a new path all her own. But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys North to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, walker-free settlement. As friendship, rivalry, and romance begin to blossom amongst the group, the harsh...

"The world as we knew it is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled, no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living."--P. [4] of cover.

Opens with the crew heading toward their promised sanctuary in Washington, D.C. Just when you think their luck has completely run out, a new group of humans makes their presence, and their secure community, known. After depending on each other for so long, the protagonists are each offered their own personal heaven: a community to be apart of, a house to live in and, simply put, a normal life again. At long last, the survivors find the hope they've...

For survivors of the zombie apocalypse, hopes are not lifting. As others try to keep their mind on practicalities, former policeman Rick Grimes seems increasingly on edge, despite the fact that life in the community is as near to normal as the group can ever hope it to be. As his behavior grows more and more conspicuously eccentric, other group members worry that he is putting them all in mortal danger.

In this volume of the NYT bestselling survival horror, Rick and his band of survivors work to build a larger network of thriving communities, and soon discover that Negan's "Saviors" prove to be a larger threat than they could have fathomed. Crossing Negan will lead to serious, dire consequences for the group; it seems that for the first time since the Governor's reign of terror that Rick may have Something to Fear.

The events of the previous volume, "No Way Out," have affected everyone in the community, and not everyone has survived to pick up the pieces. Rick and the survivors must now try to pick themselves up and carry in the wake of disaster... and by doing so, they find hope.

After being betrayed by members of his own community, Rick Grimes charts a new course and marshals his forces against the Whisperers.