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Mark Thompson was just another forgettable office drone-until the world ended during his morning coffee break.
One moment he was riding the elevator down. The next, the lobby became a slaughterhouse. Blood-soaked floors. Mangled corpses. And them-the zombies. Not the slow shamblers of old movies, but raging, mutating monsters that twist bones and stretch flesh in impossible ways.
Armed with nothing but a fire axe, Mark fights his way through the nightmare. Bitten and bleeding, he should have died. Instead, the virus awakens something inside him.
Steal.
His right arm transforms into a monstrous blackish-red claw pulsing with dark power-the ability to rip life force, abilities, and mutations from the dead and make them his own. In a city overrun by the infected, mutated animals, and worse, Mark must carve his path through endless hordes while uncovering the terrifying truth behind the apocalypse.
But he's not alone. Other survivors are awakening strange powers of their own. Alliances form. Rivalries ignite. And in the chaos of survival, desire burns hot-beautiful, dangerous women drawn to the man with the claw, each hiding secrets that could save or doom them all.
As the world descends into gore-drenched madness, Mark faces a brutal choice:
Will he steal enough power to become the apex predator... or lose his humanity forever?