Product Description

Dominic Corvino covert assassin, the CIA s top "wet work" specialist.
Nick Packard a rookie cop about to undergo his baptism of fire on the Washington DC mean streets. Two different men whose destinies are about to collide as Armageddon unfolds... When a routine hit on a pair of rogue DEA agents goes horribly wrong in Panama, Corvino discovers not only has his team been betrayed from within, but he, too, is marked for death. For Packard, his first day on the job rapidly descends into Hell on Earth when a domestic disturbance turns into a blood-soaked nightmare. As a plague sweeps across the globe, turning normally non-lethal diseases fatal, the dead begin to revive. Violence-crazed and hungry for flesh, they are everywhere. And as their troops increase in size and appetite a new order is steadily established from coast to coast... A new order that leaves no room for the living.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1261839 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 316 pages

Review
"Before "Resident Evil, before "28 Days Later, there was Philip Nutman. And there was Wet Work." --Tim Sullivan, Screenwriter and director

"The Genre is much enriched by his insight and creativity." --Clive Barker

"What you have here is the literary equivalent of a Lucio Fulchi movie which races along like early George Romero" --Jack Ketchum --author of The Girl Next Door, Red and Off Season

From the Publisher
The most acclaimed novel of epic terror since The Stand returns to print in a special definitive edition hard cover collector’s edition exclusively from The Overlook Connection Press.

About the Author
Full Throttle, the novella which appeared in Splatterpunks!, garnered Nutman his first of four Bram Stoker Award nominations, and was reviewed to acclaim in The New York Times. In addition to novels (Wet Work, the forthcoming Full Throttle, and the work-in-progress, The Man on the White Horse), Nutman is a successful comic book and screenwriter. His comic book credits include Clive Barker's Hellraiser, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Evil Ernie: Destroyer, Chastity: Rocked, and the anthology series Nightmare Theater. Most recently, he penned a three-part story based on the classic John Carpenter horror movie, Halloween. As a screenwriter, he has written over a dozen screenplays, including a controversial version of Jack Ketchum's infamous The Girl Next Door, and has just finished adapting Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child's archaeological thriller Thunderhead as a big budget major studio project for Gryphon Films.

Customer Reviews

Zombie Armageddon
As Wet Work opens, Dominic Corvino, leader of Spiral, a crack U.S. Black Ops hit team, is in Panama City, Panama, preparing to initiate an operation against four members of the Cali Cartel, main suppliers of cocaine to the states. Assessing his situation, he once again takes notice of the spectacular show presented by the comet Saracen in the night sky.

Corvino doesn't know it yet, but his life is about to get very complicated. First, the operation goes awry, resulting in the deaths of his entire team. Later, he's shot dead by a traitorous colleague, only to rise again as a zombie due to the strange radiation generated by Saracen. He wakes up in a world where humanity is on the verge of extinction due to the presence of sentient zombies who, enjoying near invulnerability, are rounding up those not affected for food. Corvino, one of the "lucky" zombies who can think for themselves, struggles with a gnawing hunger for human flesh even as he seeks vengeance against those who betrayed him. His vendetta against his ex-colleagues propels him towards a meeting with the book's other lead character, Washington DC policeman Nick Packard, an encounter sure to resonate with readers long after they finish the book.

It's always reassuring to find that a book you enjoyed many years ago still holds up upon a subsequent rereading, which I'm pleased to report is the case with Wet Work, Philip Nutman's accomplished 1993 debut novel. Written in homage to Richard Matheson's masterpiece I am Legend, the novel is still, as my friends from New England might say, a "wicked good" read--one of the more readable, well crafted and innovative splatterpunk novels of the era, its plentiful action and "pedal to the metal" approach to gore and violence would make it memorable even if you didn't care about its cast so much. My only problem with this whole project is that it raises the question, what's Nutman been doing for thirteen years that's kept him from delivering other novels? Yes, he's written some comics, and he's been involved in various film projects, but it's a shame he never got around to publishing another novel--it certainly would have been interesting to see what he did next. Hopefully, this welcome reissue will spur some activity in this area.

An edge of your seat thriller!
A special ops team in Panama, who are on assignment against a cocaine cartel, have their mission go terribly wrong and many of them die. Corvino, the leader of the team is shot and killed by a shiftless team member. The situation seems bad, but then it gets worse.

Corvino doesn't stay dead, due to the radiation form a comet called Saracen, he is becomes the walking dead. While world soon gets over populated with these Ravenous and unstoppable meat eaters. Corvino is a rare type of walking dead that can think, so he battles his natural "zombie" instincts while seeking revenge.

Philip Nutman is not afraid to tell this story in raw and gory detail. This book is not the usual horror or tired old Zombie novel. He holds nothing back. His readers are witnesses to uncensored sexuality and intense scenes of violence, written in such graphic detail that they may actually wince at some of the things you "see". It is like looking at a terrible accident, you can't stand to look but you can't turn away.

Philip really knows how to write a suspenseful scene. I have read many horror novels and seen hundreds of horror movies but this is the first book I have ever read, that had my heart beating in suspense and pulled me so deeply into the story. I was physically scared, of what was going to happen to a character at times, while I was reading it.

I have not found many "horror" novels out there anymore than do more than just engage me in a good read. This one is one of the best I have read in more than a decade. His scene and character detail, paint such a realistic picture that you get absorbed into the story, sometimes you forget you are reading a book.

His book will pull you in, and keep you on the edge of your seat while reading. There is enough action for adventure fans and enough suspense and gore to keep any hard core horror reader satisfied.