Max Brooks

The Great Panic: Surveillance

PARNELL AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE: MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, USA [Gavin Blaire pilots one of the D-17 combat dirigibles that make up the core of Ame…

World War Z - Introduction

It goes by many names: “The Crisis,” “The Dark Years,” “The Walking Plague,” as well as newer and more “hip” titles such as “World War Z” or…

Warnings: The Warmbrunn-Knight Report

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL [Jurgen Warmbrunn has a passion for Ethiopian food, which is our reason for meeting at a Falasha restaurant. With his brigh…

Warnings: Patient Zero

GREATER CHONGQING, THE UNITED FEDERATION OF CHINA [At its prewar height, this region boasted a population of over thirty-five million people…

Warnings: Palestine

BETHLEHEM, UNIFIED PALESTINE [With his rugged looks and polished charm, Saladin Kader could be a movie star. He is friendly but never obsequ…

Warnings: Overland Smuggling

LHASA, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF TIBET [The world’s most populous city is still recovering from the results of last week’s general election. …

Warnings: Kyrgyzstan

METEORA, GREECE [The monasteries are built into the steep, inaccessible rocks, some buildings sitting perched atop high, almost vertical col…

Warnings: Khayelitsha

Warnings: Herr Muller

THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST, BRAZIL [I arrive blindfolded, so as not to reveal my “hosts’” location. Outsiders call them the Yanomami, “The Fierc…

Blame: Misinformation Effect

TROY, MONTANA, USA [This neighborhood is, according to the brochure, the “New Community” for the “New America.” Based on the Israeli “Masada…