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Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.

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Jonathan Maberry
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 18
Author
Science Fiction Writer
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Kensington
Philadelphia
Shane MacDougall
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Careful
Disintegrated
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Walking
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Already
Predators
Dead
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Dangerous
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