Should I read the Mountain Man prequels before this book?

No. Mountain Man (2011) is the first book of the series and is where it starts. The prequels, The Hospital, Mountain Man: Prequel (2017) and Them Early Days, were written later and show Gus in the early days of the outbreak, so they can be read before or after it.

What comes after Mountain Man?

Safari is book two and picks up where Mountain Man ends. The main series continues with Hellifax, Well Fed, Make Me King, Mindless and Skull Road.

Mountain Man

Horror Post-Apocalyptic

Pages: 399
Published: 2011
Language: English

Synopsis

Two years after a zombie outbreak brought civilization down, Augustus "Gus" Berry, a former house painter, lives alone on a mountain outside Annapolis, Nova Scotia. He has fortified his home, keeps a shotgun and a samurai bat close, and spends his days drinking and waiting for the undead to find their way up to him.

Supplies do not last, so Gus drives down into the deserted town and its undead suburbs to scavenge what is left, knowing any trip could be his last. When he crosses paths with another survivor, a wounded man named Scott, Gus starts to learn that the shambling dead may not be the most dangerous thing left in the world.

The first book in Keith C. Blackmore's Mountain Man series, a gritty, darkly funny zombie survival story.