World War Z: The Lost Files

A Companion to the Abridged Edition

By: Max Brooks

Narrated by: Max Brooks, Martin Scorsese, F. Murray Abraham, René Auberjonois, Bruce Boxleitner, Denise Crosby, Paul Sorvino

Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Fans of Max Brooks' original abridged recording of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War will be thrilled to add this companion piece to their audio library. Offering listeners five hours of previously unrecorded content, World War Z: The Lost Files features 21 Hollywood A-list actors and sci-fi fan favorites performing stories not included in the original abridged edition.

Narrators of World War Z: The Lost Files are Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, Spiderman star Alfred Molina, The Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont, rapper Common, Firefly star Nathan Fillion, Shaun of the Dead's Simon Pegg, F. Murray Abraham, René Auberjonois, Bruce Boxleitner, Nicki Clyne, Denise Crosby, Ade M'Cormack, Parminder Nagra, Masi Oka, Kal Penn, Jürgen Prochnow, Jeri Ryan, Paul Sorvino, David Ogden Stiers, Brian Tee, and Ric Young. Max Brooks reprises his role as The Interviewer.

PLEASE NOTE: World War Z: The Lost Files offers five hours of stories from characters not included in the original abridged recording, published as World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. Also available from Random House Audio is World War Z: The Complete Edition, which offers these five extra hours of stories integrated with the original abridged recording.

Also listen to World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and World War Z: The Complete Edition.

©2013 Max Brooks (P)2013 Random House

This is the first book.

I have read the original book many many times. I used one of my credits to buy it, but none of it was familiar. So I used my other credit to buy this one, and this is actually the first one. I am relieved though because I was wondering how I had no memory of this book.

fantastic version of this awesome book

I read this book in print several years ago and i have always meant to re-read it but never got around to it. listening to this version was the absolute perfect way to revisit this book. every part was amazingly read and preformed. i highly recommend this.

Great!

Absolutely awesome book! Must listen for sure. B sure to listen to first book because this book reintroduces characters from previous book. Again, you got to read this boo or Karen to it lol

Amazing!!

A collection of stories about survivors struggles through the apocalypse shows the depths of human depravity and endurance.

A good listen

Sure, it’s not the complete version. But if you want that version, go get it. For what it is, it’s a really good listen.

As good as I hoped

Really enjoyed the actors and their stories. It was what I expected and that is a GOOD thing.

Dreaming about Zombies

Henry Rollins and Common are a few of the performers, fyi. I'm biased bc I loved the book WW Z and needed to hear more.

a great audio book for first time listener.

I was curious and cautious about audio books, I was concerned about buying an audio book and it turning out to be a bad read.
well not this book! I thoroughly enjoyed the many actors who voice acted, many to my surprise that they worked in audiobooks!
I've never experienced any other audio book nor the world war z books. I enjoy how they brought the reading to an almost real experience! it's what got me to read in the first place!!
again a great intro into audio books!! give it a listen!!

Phenomenal Addition to the WWZ Franchise

The voice cast was expertly chosen and greatly added to the overall immersion. Max Brooks’ writing holds up better and better as the years go by. Given how the world has gone recently, I 100% believe this story isn’t too far off to how the world would handle the Solanum Virus IRL. Overall, this is another great work by Max Brooks that will stand the test of time.

I always enjoy this because of the readers.

Celeb readers all awesome! Kal Penn, Bruce Boxlightner and the rest. All Gild pure gold.