- First teaser for Tyson Johnston’s first contact flick EXIST
- Producers claim documentary of Mayan underwater cities and ET contact will shake the world
- Producers claim documentary of Mayan underwater cities and ET contact will shake the world
- Sundance 2008 - Trailer for Dog Eat Dog (Perro Come Perro)
- New Horror movie: [REC]
- First teaser for Tyson Johnston’s first contact flick EXIST
- Battle for Pandora Trailer!
- Battle for Pandora Trailer!
- Trailer: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- MAD MAX: HOPE AND GLORY Short Film Funding on Kickstarter
- Re: Occupation, Australian Sci Fi movie
- Slice of Life, Blade Runner inspired short
- Is Snowpeircer a sequel to Willy Wonka?
- Re: Yesterday
- Re: Yesterday
- Yesterday
- Re: White Night (or where do I get my 30 + from now?)
- Re: White Night (or where do I get my 30 + from now?)
- Re: White Night (or where do I get my 30 + from now?)
- Re: White Night (or where do I get my 30 + from now?)
- MAD MAX: HOPE AND GLORY Short Film Funding on Kickstarter
- Dawn of the Dead 4K Coming in January!
- Here's What's New on Blu-ray and 4K this Week! [October 18, 2022]
- Sony Released A Bunch of Limited Edition Steelbooks This Week
- First Trailer for HBO's THE LAST OF US Series
- Trailer: A Family Navigates Disaster in WHITE NOISE Adaptation
- Take Note PA Fans: TESTAMENT Finally Comes to Blu-ray in Glorious Special Edition
- Trailer for Indigenous Apocalyptic Film POLARIS
- Trailer for New SCAVENGERS REIGN Animated Series
- MANBORG Novelization Out Now!
- Book Club: SWAN SONG Is a Post-Apocalyptic Classic on Par with The Stand
- VIFF 2021: THE IN-LAWS, MIRACLE, SALOUM, SECRETS FROM PUTUMAYO [Capsule Reviews]
- TIFF 2021: SILENT NIGHT Review
- VIFF 2021: Documentary Preview [Capsule Reviews]
- TIFF 2021: THE PINK CLOUD, THE HOLE IN THE FENCE [Capsule Reviews]
- TIFF 2021: JAGGED Review
- TIFF 2021: SUNDOWN Review
- VIFF 2021: Animation Preview [Capsule Reviews]
- SAINT-NARCISSE is Bruce LaBruce at His Most Accomplished [Review]
- TIFF 2021: DASHCAM Review
- TIFF 2021: THE DAUGHTER Review
- Here's What's New on Blu-ray & 4K This Week [September 20, 2022]
- The V/H/S/99 Teaser Trailer is Here!
- Blade Runner 2099 Series Ordered by Amazon
- Trailer for Lars von Trier's THE KINGDOM: EXODUS
- 5-25-77 Is A Coming of Age Movie about Filmmaking and the Summer Star Wars Was Released
- Trailer for Mission to Mars Movie VIKING
- Trailer for Lucky McKee's OLD MAN
- Trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn's Copenhagen Cowboy Netflix Series
- William Gibson Adaptation THE PERIPHERAL Finally Gets a Trailer!
- Winnie the Pooh Slasher Movie Gets a Trailer
- Cameras Roll on MJ Bassett's RED SONJA Adaption!
- Special Features Released for 4K Release of The Return of the Living Dead!
- Trailer: A Family Navigates Disaster in WHITE NOISE Adaptation
- Special Features Revealed for ARMY OF DARKNESS 4K Steelbook Edition
- Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon Trailer
- THE RUNNING MAN Gets a 4K Steelbook for its 35th Anniversary
- George Romero's THE AMUSEMENT PARK Coming to Blu-ray
- Lars von Trier Returns to his haunting TV Series with The Kingdom Exodus! [CLIP]
- Out now on Blu-ray and 4K! [August, 9, 2022]
- Take Note PA Fans: TESTAMENT Finally Comes to Blu-ray in Glorious Special Edition
Jack In
Latest Comments
Latest Forum Posts
PA News
Latest Reviews
Older News
Crew
Marina Antunes
Editor in Chief
Vancouver, British Columbia
Christopher Webster
Managing Editor
Edmonton, Alberta
DN aka quietearth
Founder / Asst. Managing Editor
Denver, Colorado
Simon Read
UK Correspondent
Edinburgh, Scotland
Rick McGrath
Toronto Correspondent
Toronto, Ontario
Manuel de Layet
France Correspondent
Paris, France
rochefort
Austin Correspondent
Austin, Texas
Daniel Olmos
Corrispondente in Italia
Italy
Griffith Maloney aka Griffith Maloney
New York Correspondent
New York, NY
Stephanie O
Floating Correspondent
Quiet Earth Bunker
Jason Widgington
Montreal Correspondent
Montreal, Quebec
Carlos Prime
Austin Correspondent
Austin, TX
Latest news







Year: 2010
Author: Craig Dilouie
Publisher: Schmidt House Books
IMDB: link
Review by: MEGAT0N
Rating: 8 out of 10
"The boy stops, grips his knees, and totters, panting... After making sure the woman is no longer a threat, he lifts his face to scan the nearby buildings, searching for his savior. In doing so, he reveals an inflamed and swollen bite mark on his cheek, smeared with blood and drool. His roaming eyes find a tiny silhouette on the roof of the building across the street. His mouth spreads into a big, toothy grin. He raises his hand to wave hello.
The top of his head explodes.
On the roof of the building, a puff of smoke rises."
Such is the state of the world as portrayed Craig DiLouie's new novel, Tooth and Nail, where Mad Dogs, the infected, live only to spread their disease to anyone they can sink their teeth into. To describe the setting, take the outbreak stage of The Stand, but tweak the super flu to act more like the rage virus from 28 Days Later and extend the incubation period of the virus to a few hours. Then shrink the perspective down to a single company of US Army infantry, and place them in the center of New York City.
That describes the situation the men of Charlie Company find themselves in after they're yanked out of Iraq, along with 250,000 other US military personnel around the world, and returned to the States to provide security in the face of increasing violence due to the raging Hong Kong Lyssa pandemic. They're ordered to protect a clinic in Manhattan, and told the situation is not yet serious. They quickly figure out that they were lied to.
As the citizens of New York transform into ravaging hordes of infected all around them, they're ordered to do whatever it takes to get a trapped scientist out of the city; a scientist who has discovered what might lead to a cure for the disease.
What follows makes for a very, very good book.
As one character remarks early on, "Our situational awareness is extremely limited" and as readers, ours is too. We never know more than what the characters know; we are in the dark the same way they are. They wonder what's happening in their hometowns, with their families, and debate whether or not to try to reach them. We don't see the broader collapse of society across the country, but what's happening in New York is more than enough to keep us occupied.
If you're current or former military, you'll feel right at home with the boys of Second Platoon. Told from a military perspective, the story is full of Army jargon and situations. But even if you don't know what an RTO or SAW or SINCGAR is, don't worry; DiLouie keeps the Army feel, but explains everything enough that no one will have trouble understanding it all.
The characters, dialog, and situations are all entirely believable; I never found myself questioning if that's how events would really play out. And with several companies of US Army Infantry running through a city of millions of people, with rules of engagement that say kill anything that moves, you can imagine the level of action you get.
I fully enjoyed almost everything about this book, with two minor quibbles. One, it's a bit short, only 250 pages or so (though I guess you can only have so many running street battles). Two, there's a formatting thing where at each scene break, there's a header with a sentence from the upcoming section. I found that distracting, since it breaks the flow of what you're reading.
But other than that, this book is great; definitely the kind you can pick up and read again. There are a million stories that could be told in the universe that DiLouie has created, so if we're lucky, he'll come back to it with a sequel some day.
If you're a fan of zombies, military fiction, or just fast paced action stories in general, I don't think you'll be disappointed with Tooth and Nail.
ps By the way, other than the title, this book has nothing to do with the movie Tooth and Nail, though I think it would make a great movie of it's own.
You might also like








Eric (12 years ago) Reply
I juat started reading this book about a hour ago and now took my first break. Thanks for putting me onto this book. Would of never known about it if not for QE. Permuted press where I order all my Zombie books had nothing about this author or book.