Everything My Grandmother Taught Me about Killing Zombies

With limited shooting skills, Lucy Marquez, a young, unemployed waitress, embarks on a new career as a zombie hunter, working for Jake Terwilliker's Zombie Hunters Extraordinaire, the only surviving group of their unique occupation in Northern California in the period just after World War II. All other hunters have been killed. But Lucy has more than zombies to contend with. Even though she was born with a red birth mark covering half her face and is known as the Devils Spawn, she has both Jake and his giant half-wit brother Tommy both in love with her, and has aroused the lust of the corrupt, sexual predator Judge Clemens, mayor of the town Los Perros Muertos (the dead dogs). Added to this mix are Zena, the zombie sorceress from Louisiana, who is not content with the work of digging up dead people, and employs her bacteriological powder to convert living people to into super blood sucking, flesh eating zombies, with extremely quick animal reflexes and powerful strength. Her goal, of course, is to raise a zombie army to capture first Sacramento and then all of California. After all, her enemies of today after they are killed, become her soldiers of tomorrow. In addition, adding a significant dose of black humor, the mob in the guise of Leon Napoli also has decided to muscle in on the zombie business. And, luckily, they have no difficulties in procuring dead bodies with bullet holes in their heads to pawn off as harvested zombie victims. The only snag that the rather short mobster named for Napoleon encounters is that he is killed rather early, but he is not one to let that stop his big plans.Jake's friend Woody joins Jake's team just in time to get drunk; write catchy, irreverent songs; chase dead zombie women, who remind him of the whores in L.A.; and basically collect a paycheck while the world is coming apart around him. And the military is not to be left out as Lieutenant Colonel Tarquin who, like Lieutenant Colonel Custard before him, has big plans for a promotion to full colonel that rely on proving the Jake and his hunter's are just plain killers and the whole zombies racket is just one big con game. To prove his point he incompetently commands a task force that enters into Los Perros at the start of the Zombie War, the war to decide whether mankind will survive, or wander about dead to the world as usual.