14-year-old Zack Thornwood's life is turned upside down one day after baseball practice when he spots an 8-fingered man with a hole in his head disappear into the ground. Hole-in-Head Man is quickly followed by Xander Moon, a self-titled 'Hunter of the Dead' who explains that there are tons of dead people walking around pretending not to be dead. They look alive, they act alive, but they are most definitely not alive, and this is most definitely not a good thing.
Xander gives Zack the ability to tell the dead from the living through their unique odor (he smells dead people) and the two follow Hole-in-Head Man (whose name is Gus) into an ancient tomb hidden underground in the middle of suburbia. There they beat Gus to the prize contained within--a squishy spleen. The spleen is one of the legendary 14 Pieces that, when assembled, create The Osiris Machine which will bring about the end of the world.
Zack tries to go back to his normal life, but when Gus tries to kill him in the middle of a playground, he discovers the Deadly Dead are not through with him just yet. When Zack touched the squishy spleen, the location of the next Piece of the Osiris Machine was more or less downloaded into his brain. Gus and the people he works for, including the mysterious and utterly evil Miss Bubbles, want that information, and they will stop at nothing to get it. 
The Chronicles of the Deadly Dead is created by David Neilsen, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

The Chronicles of the Deadly Dead

Cecil wasn’t thrilled, not wanting to put any more innocent lives in danger. I wasn’t thrilled either, but only because I didn’t want Gary to be around when I swooped in and saved Zoe’s life. Three’s a crowd. But in the end, it was kind of hard to leave him behind, what with him already in the know and all. Also he kept whining about how he had to go rescue his girlfriend and how only he could save her because only he loved her and at that point I pretty much tuned him out.


So while Gary and I changed into actual clothes - I wasn’t too keen with the image of me coming to Zoe’s rescue in my Transformer jammies - Ronnie composed a note that we hoped would ensure that Mom and Larry didn’t fly off the handle when they woke up to find that I'd run off yet again and this time I'd taken Ronnie with me. I wasn’t exactly sure how you soothe your folks over the fact that their twelve year-old and fourteen year-old had run off in the night, but I left the details to her.


Chapter 54: I Get on the Naughty List