When their paths intersect they must help and rely on each other for survival. And Brandon, an awkward teenager with an obsession for horror comics and video games, hides out in his parents’ Cold War era bunker until he runs out of fuel. Michael and Amy, a bickering couple from NYC, struggle to get out of Manhattan despite the bridges and tunnels being barricaded and locked down. Marcus, a reformed prison inmate with a violent past, escapes with a band of unscrupulous marauders during a riot. Sheryl, a suburban housewife, learns of the dust when she gets a call from a neighbor that her boys are sick on the football field. Willy, an old, hardened, Vietnam War veteran suffering from PTSD, witnesses the outbreak as it ramps up in intensity at the hospital where he works as a janitor. Vogel, a former infectious disease lab rat turned physician, is on a mission to get to the CDC to give them samples of what he thinks might be the basis for a cure. Wolf, an extreme survivalist television personality, is the first one on the scene when the meteors hit, filming the damage. The Lazarus Impact is a fast paced, high intensity, peri-apocalyptic zombie action thriller that traces the stories of eight unique and diverse characters as they travel through the madness, trying to head west past the quarantine to safety…

But when the dead start coming back to life and eating the living, the US braces itself for a full-on zombie outbreak that no military barricade can keep contained.

Military personnel wearing gas masks patrol the edges of the affected area, preventing anyone from crossing. As a result the government quarantines the entire northeast. The dust plume causes severe illness and death as it blows east across America. The US power grid fails due to the impact of a large meteorite. A meteor shower pelts the earth with strange debris on Christmas Eve.

The Lazarus Impact by Vincent Todarello