But the pressure each day to stay alive sends many in the group to the deepest
depths of human cruelty, and Rick discovers that the overwhelming fear of the survivors can be more deadly than the zombies walking among them.
Who better than he knew what base things can come from the black
depths of the
human heart, dealing as he did with extortioners and prostitutes, the
cruelty of the strong and the bigotry
of the religious, and feeling over all the tyranny
of a vast military empire?