Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Typhoon

By: Wesley Chu

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's Summary

In this riveting, “gory, and action-packed” (Jonathan Maberry) survival thriller, set in the expansive world of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series, three people from different walks of life in China must join forces against the typhoon of undead as chaos sweeps over Asia. 

In the aftermath of the zombie virus outbreak, what remains of the Chinese government has estimated that one billion walkers (called jiangshi) are currently roaming through the country. Across this dramatic landscape, large groups of survivors have clustered together for safety in villages and towns that have been built vertically as a means of protection against the unceasing wave of jiangshi.

In one of these settlements, scavengers of vastly different backgrounds struggle to provide supplies for the survival of thousands. Before this devastation, Zhu was one of millions of poor farmers who left their rural roots for the promise of consistent employment in one of China’s booming factory towns. Ella was a Chinese American grad student who was studying abroad for the semester. Hengyen was a grizzled military officer of some renown and a passionate believer in his nation’s ability to surmount any obstacle.

Zhu, as the leader of the team Ella is a part of, reports to Hengyen. But with the settlement’s 5,000 mouths to feed and the scavengers having to travel further and further in search of food, Zhu ends up at his home village, where he is shocked to find survivors. Does he force them to join the settlement or keep their existence a secret?

Meanwhile, Hengyen is tasked with the impossible: fortifying the Beacon against a 100,000-strong “typhoon” of walkers header their way. Even though he realizes that the Beacon hardly stands a chance, Hengyen is a believer and will stand with his compatriots to the very last, bringing him into conflict with Zhu, who intends to flee the path of the typhoon and make for the safety of China’s dramatic mountain ranges before it’s too late. 

Given “two decaying thumbs up,” (Jonathan Mayberry, author of Rot & Ruin), this book is sure to get your heart racing and leave you wanting more! 

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©2019 Simon & Schuster, Inc. and Robert Kirkman, LLC. All rights reserved. (P)2019 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Hard to Finish

I love TWD universe and this book was not good. Slow and characters were not redeeming.

first book in the series I've read..

and I really enjoyed this! I'm so glad they are expanding on the WD world. This story, completely original, really stands up against his other work. I really look forward to more books outside the main comic storyline.

An amazing journey

So much is done right in this book! The atmosphere is great. The situations are nerve wracking, and the story is phenomenal! I love the different plot points that interconnect and the race towards time against the typhoon makes the reader at the edge of your seat! Overall really good!

HORRIBLE!!! I WANT MY CREDIT BACK!!!

I love Walking Dead books but this one is just bad! still trying to figure out how audible can refund my credit back

Good, but not great

I enjoyed this listen, and the plot moved right along, but it fell short of great. Was interesting to see Kirkman's world in another nation. Action was good and characters were okay. Ultimately, I was entertained.

The ending was different just to be different!

I feel like the entire book was fantastic but, I feel like Wesley Chu wrote the ending to be different than what we expected it to be and it didn't work in my eyes. it's warring with me because on one hand it was a good ending but I just feel like it was cheap.

TWD LIVES

Great addition to the Walking Dead Universe. I always wondered what was happening in other countries, now I know!!!

Great read

Great story! The voices he gave the characters are pretty entertaining as well. The woman's voice gave me a chuckle lol

I didn't like it

I'm a big fan of the waking dead, but this one just didn't get my interest at all. I wanted to like it. But I just couldn't finish it.

I really enjoyed this.

Hope to see it on screen one day. More stories from around the world in this universe should be done.