California author Luke Ahearn may be immersed in the beauties of California but his native New Orleans is in his blood - New Orleans, `No city can be at one time so bawdy and noble, enlightened and inebriated...In a city isolated in the deep south, but serving as a gateway to the world, you are bound to have some serious dichotomies.' His life has been one of a designer, producer, and art director for video games; seven (including Dead Reckoning and Americas' Army) have won major awards. He owns MasterWerx, an animatronic prop shop and continues to write books about his profession, books that include 3D Game Textures: Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop, 3D Game Environments: Create Professional 3D Game Worlds, 3D Game Creation with CDROM (Cyberrookies), 3D Game Textures: Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop, 3D Game Art f/x & Design, the Awesome Game Creation he co authored, Origins: Prequel Dark Deeds and Black Magics Series. He also has strayed into writing novels: A Birth, a romantic novel was his first and now he adds EUPHORIA-Z. He has also worked as a background artist at EA (Electronic Arts). All of this allows him depth of expression in this new novel.
Ahearn's story jumps around a lot, probably not unlike video game choices. He opens with what sounds as though it is going to be war against one Cooper, but more about that as the story develops. Then the pace changes, new characters are introduced, a meteor is aimed at the earth, strikes, and the transformation it causes is a sense of euphoria - people become infected with the Euphoria-Z virus, are immune to pain, and feel only pleasure despite rather noxious wounds, then comes a heinous death and the people rise again as zombies! The Cooper of the opening chapter becomes the leader of a resistance movement to depopulate the world. Adventure abounds as Cooper is out to find his sister in this garish battleground of an uncivilized world. Language is raw, events are X-rated, and the interplays between the good guys and the bad guys has rarely been so well designed. The only flaw (and perhaps for those who play video games already this is not a problem) is the manner in which the story is laid out - in bits and piece, bouncing time frames around to the point of confusion. For those whose `appetite' includes Zombie stories, this book will certainly satisfy. The superb cover art is courtesy of Steven J Catizone. Grady Harp, May 14
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