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Bulldog Five - Book Three

Following the events of the previous two years the Hebridean personnel of Bulldog Five finally has the time to breath and enjoy limited luxuries once again, brought over by container ships from allied Canada. Even the King - in his non-constitutional role as Acting Prime Minister - has decided to go on a good-will helicopter trip around the shattered country. Yet the commander of Bulldog Five is reluctant, as Colonel Michael Morgan feels that the trip is a complete waste of limited resources as well as taking an unnecessary risk when the fate of the nefarious intelligence chief turned traitor (Colonel Alan Harborne) and his European Cabal is still unknown.

The King however wins the argument and the tour commences. But following a good-will trip to the survivors in Dublin, Ireland, they arrive at Bulldog Three in Cornwall where the King decides that he and his wife will remain to spend time with their new grandchild, leaving Morgan free to continue the tour without having to waste time shaking hands.

It gives him the opportunity to fly over the decontamination efforts in Devonport dockyard - in ruins following the nuclear attack on Plymouth - where the Bulldog forces remain optimistic that they can salvage more than one of the old moth-balled submarines. Flying inland by avoiding Portsmouth (that is assumed in enemy hands still), they land at Dover Castle, now a satellite base of Bulldog One's.

After the revelation that Bulldog One had survived the nuclear bombardment that most people had assumed left the base destroyed, an officer called Major Iona Mackenzie rallied the survivors together, eventually moving their resources to Dover. This gave Morgan the chance to repay a favour to an old friend, by bringing SAS Major Jimmy "Mac" Mackenzie - disabled following a near-fatal heart attack - to be reunited with his long-lost daughter.

Flying over a devastated London, the flight is then refuelled at the Midlands base of Bulldog Two, before planning to fly along England's spine of the Pennine Mountains. But as they flew over the Peak District, Morgan's flight of helicopters are unexpectedly shot down, crash landing the survivors into zombie-infested England.

The survivors must travel by foot, water, road and train all the way from the Peak District to the City of York where an enemy from Morgan's past has enslaved much of the local population. Hot on their heels are a rescue squad led by the trusty Sergeant Major Richard Watkins, who employs a motley team that includes a Yorkshire Rifleman, a Catholic priest with a mysterious military background and a disgraced bipolar General.

Morgan's trusted allies must rush to rescue their Colonel who in turn, is making new allies in hostile York despite being held in a cage. Characters from previous books reappear, while other take more prominent roles as well. And to mix the themes (Book One concentrating on separate interjoined vignettes, Book Two linked by Lord Haw Haw broadcasts made by a notorious royal family member), Book Three is linked together by thoughts written within Jamaican Sergeant Daniel "George" Washington's journal. Seen by most as one of Morgan's most intelligent men, Washington has become the leading expert on the zombie outbreak, and how inaccurate that initial description was. By the start of the book he's managed to identify five types of zombie of varying intelligence, but makes a surprising sixth discovery as the story unfolds.

A story that travels the entire length of the British Isles but concentrating on the North of England, before then returning back to Bulldog Five once again; this third book in the Bulldog Fives series detailing events following the release of the RW101A Virus - or Zombie Virus as most people now refer to it - will lead directly onto Book Four as well as a spin-off series that will take a selection of the Bulldog Five team around the globe.