In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing-and too earth-shattering in its implications-to be forgotten.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with “the Bigfoot thriller you didn’t know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I’ve ever read” (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion).Īs the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined.

We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us-and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity. If what Kate saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. In these pages, Max Brooks brings to light the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own investigations into the massacre that followed and the legendary beasts behind it.

And as the ash swirled and finally settled, they found themselves facing a specter none of them could have predicted-or even thought possible. With no weapons and their food supplies dwindling, Greenloop’s residents slowly realized that they were in a fight for survival.

Offering a glorious back-to-nature experience with all the comforts of high-speed Internet, solar smart houses, and the assurance of being mere hours from Seattle by highway, Greenloop was indeed a paradise-until Mount Rainier erupted, leaving its residents truly cut off from the world, and utterly unprepared for the consequences. Set in the wilds of Washington State, Greenloop was once a model eco-community-until nature’s wrath made it a tragic object lesson in civilization’s fragility. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with 'the Bigfoot thriller you didn't know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I've ever read' (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion).

Devolution by Max Brooks