'Eons ago, visitors from outer space buried an item of unimaginable power in the primordial swamps that would one day become King Lake--a quaint little basin on the edge of Whisper, USA. Millions of years later, a comets radioactive waves awaken the monster slumbering beneath the lake. As the beast feeds on Americas sweet, delicious youth, brain-slugs infect the quiet town, causing victims to vomit up their kill-hungry, zombified skeletons. But for seventeen-year-old Jarrod Parker, none of that stuff matters much. For him, this isnt about the Apocalypse. Its about payback. Nothing--not his friends, not the undead, not even the end of the world--will keep him from vengeance. '