When the Imperial prison barge Purge&#8211;temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy&#8217;s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves&#8211;breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back&#8211;bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.<br><br>And death is only the beginning. <br><br>The Purge&#8217;s half-dozen survivors&#8211;two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board&#8211;will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn&#8217;t really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>