Alexjcreads
Their friendship was forged in peace. It will be tested by the apocalypse.
August 2010. The world is ending.
Petty Officer Ray Husbands and his best friend, Tom Hubbard, are living the dream. Stationed at a U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, their days are a blur of comm center shifts and their nights are for ramen, drinks, and planning trips to Tokyo. The strange virus spreading in America is just a rumor, a distant problem. It has nothing to do with them.
Until it does.
When the Wildfire Virus reaches Japan, it brings a nightmare. The dead don't stay dead. The military collapses. And Operation Cobalt-the government's final, desperate protocol-isn't a rescue mission. It's an abandonment order. The U.S. Navy retreats across the Pacific, leaving Ray, Tom, and thousands of others stranded in a country that is no longer their own.
Now, two American sailors must fight to survive a nation spiraling into chaos. Their journey will take them from the burning streets of Yokosuka to the frozen mountains of Hokkaido, where they will face relentless walkers, desperate survivors, and the slow, crushing erosion of everything they once believed. They will lose friends. They will lose hope. They will learn that survival is not the same as living.
Years later, Ray returns to Yokosuka. The base is a graveyard, the ships are gone, and the dead walk the parade ground where he once stood at attention. In the wreckage of a downed helicopter, he will find a ghost from his past-a haunting reminder of the world that was, and the man he has become.
Set in the universe of The Walking Dead, THE LAST HORIZON is a story of friendship, loss, and the unbreakable human spirit. It is a tale of two sailors who refused to give up-even when the world told them to.