Jackson Creed and Joel Kelly are back in their most explosive adventure yet!Joel Kelly and Jackson Creed have managed to settle down in Oregon with both old and new friends. Having rescued a man named Erik Tragger, and his girlfriend Katherine from the clutches of a nest of shufflers, they learn that an offensive to take back the area is being organized in Portland.The stakes have never been higher as the entire land mass is about to go up in flames, thanks to a massive incursion by the shufflers. If Joel and Jackson can't break free, they may very well join the ranks of the undead.Included with Z-RISEN 5 is a sample of Timothy W. Long's newest dystopian book DRUMS OF WAR.Z-RISEN 5: BARRIERS follows the events of BEYOND THE BARRIERS: GHOULS, however, the books can be read independently from each other."Timothy W. Long injects a stark degree of realism into everything he writes. His horror is more horrific, his heroics more heroic, I love reading his stuff." --Peter Clines, bestselling author of the Ex-Heroes series, 14, and The Fold"Reading Timothy W. Long is like being in a knife fight that doesn't end until the last page." --Nicholas Sansbury Smith, bestselling author of The Extinction Cycle