Logan has his tongue firmly wedged in his cheek as he embarks upon his colourful tale of a wacky bestial zombie epidemic. And Britain is suddenly the last place on Earth that you want to be. Now mankind is no longer top of the food chain. Only the birds and the insects seem to be immune to the virus. Britain is quickly being thrust into a full scale epidemic, turning all of its animal population into sex-crazed, bloodthirsty, pus-weeping killers. No longer can the government control the problem. Meanwhile, the virus is spreading like absolute wildfire. They need to retrieve all copies of the recording she made from the tip-off. And so they instigate her swift abduction. They know that McBrien is snooping too close to the truth and must take actions to prevent her getting this story out. Is this just a set-up? Is this some idiot’s idea of a practical joke? She decides that she needs to do a little bit of her own investigating before she goes any further with this (quite frankly) gigantic story.īut the government have twigged on to the leak. ![]() McBrien can’t believe her luck! This one story could make her career. As well as finding out that it was not just an accidental fire, McBrien is also informed that a viral outbreak of a highly contagious bioweapon that has also been accidentally unleashed in the area. Meanwhile the particularly inept young reporter, Lesley McBrien, has just accidentally intercepted an anonymous phonecall tip-off about the government’s involvement with the recent fire outbreak in the nearby abattoir. Instead, the young boys are met with a field full of infected cattle, weeping with pus-filled sores and hell-bent on savagely mating with them, ripping them apart, or both. No longer are they docile creatures who they can push over for laughs and giggles. But that night, Geldof and the twins find a lot worse than a bunch of sleeping cows in the field. And now the virus was loose.įed up with the constant taunting in school from the thuggish twins who live next door to him, geeky teenager Geldof Peters decides that he really has no choice but to follow their demands and meet with them that night in the nearby fields to ‘tip some cows’. But despite their most thorough efforts, that one cow had somehow still gotten away. And that’s when, under the direct guidance of Brown, the government step in and burn the place down, killing everyone and everything inside. The resulting pandemonium leaves Terry lying unconscious on the abattoir floor. And when his boss tries to show him how to handle the situation, Mr McTavish quickly finds himself on the receiving end of an enraged beast that’s absolutely unwilling to die. ![]() This particular cow has been sneezing and behaving aggressively. ![]() Meanwhile at the McTavish & Sons abattoir where he works slaughtering the cattle, Terry Borders is nervous about one particular cow. They needed to contain the situation pronto, or all hell could break loose. The powers that be quickly enlisted security agent Alastair Brown to ensure that a lid was kept on the whole affair. It all started in Glasgow when (somewhat unwittingly) a cow which had been exposed to an experimental virus that the government had developed as a powerful bioweapon, managed to get away. In June of 2015 the novel was followed-up with the sequel entitled ‘ World War Moo’ (2015). The novel went on to win Terry Pratchett’s ‘Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now’ prize. First published in May of 2012, ‘Apocalypse Cow’ formed Scottish author and journalist Michael Logan’s debut novel.
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