He's always seen ghosts... but they've never offered him a job before.David Larkin can see ghosts. It's a blessing - or a curse - that's been part of his life since his eleventh birthday. It's not much use to him, and he mostly just tries to ignore them and get on with life, travelling around and keeping to out of the way places where not too many people have died.Until the ghost of Melissa appears to him, in a forgettable truck-stop diner on a highway in the American Midwest, warning him about the flood of zombies heading his way. Melissa offers him a deal: she'll help David escape the zombie horde - in exchange for finding her zombified body and destroying it...