the end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind has ever encountered before the infected are subject to delirium fever a dramatic increase in violent behavior and a onehundred percent mortality rate death but it doesnt end there the victims return from death to walk the earth when a massive military operation fails to contain the plague of the living dead it escalates into a global pandemic in one fell swoop the necessities of life become much more basic gone are petty everyday concerns gone are the amenities of civilized life yet a single law of nature remains live or die kill or be killed on one side of the world a battlehardened general surveys the remnants of his command a young medic a veteran photographer a brash private and dozens of refugees all are his responsibilityall thousands of miles from home back in the united states an army colonel discovers the darker side of morningstar virus and begins to collaborate with a wellknown journalist to leak the information to the public the morningstar saga has begun