Mindless

With the government bunker Whitecap secured and the truth about her affliction now known, Collie Jones decides to take the fight west. She means to confront the Leather, the road clan that rules the westlands, and kill its leader, the Dog Tongue.

Gus Berry goes with her. He understands that whatever is killing Collie is also keeping her alive, and he will not let her ride into Leather country alone, even if following her is likely to get him killed. He is less happy about Milo, the man who shot her, whom Collie insists on bringing along as a prisoner.

Out in unfamiliar territory the three of them have to depend on each other, and they find something worse than a gang: a new order building a medieval empire on the broken wills of its followers, and learning to turn the plague that ended civilization into a weapon. With a small band of survivors behind them and an army ahead, Collie and Gus have one way to protect their people.

The sixth book in Keith C. Blackmore's Mountain Man series, a dystopian zombie horror novel.