Zone One

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 by Colson Whitehead

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

The epigraphs are by Walter Benjamin, Ezra Pound, and Public Enemy, respectively.

Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral Design

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Whitehead, Colson, 1969—

Zone one : a novel / Colson Whitehead. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Zombies—Fiction. 2. Virus diseases—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3573.H4768Z36 2011

813′.54—dc22

2011008339

eISBN: 978-0-385-53501-4

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