A quiet Irish town the discovery of something metal long buried under the sand. Unearthed is a submarine and inside a last gasp Nazi chemical weapon from the end of the Second World War.

The healthy get ill and die, but rise again, to stalk the town and seek to bite and infect the living. Cut off and quarantined by the army, the townsfolk desperately fight to stay alive and try and make for an ancient keep during low tide in the estuary.

Nice to see a zombie plague set in another country from the US and with likable characters the story zips along nicely with well choice and creative prose.

If you like a good zombie book and fancy something a little different this is worth a punt.

One puzzle is the arrival of British soldiers in a helicopter at one point which adds nothing to the plot and why they are there at all, is never explained?