Violent gangs, psychotic killers and a sinister paramilitary organisation known as the Pure Bloods make it hard to stay alive. For Ben Smith and his adopted family, every day is a grim battle for survival . Ben used to work in the City as a banker - but now he's the leader of a small group of survivors, determined to keep his new family alive as they seek a safe place to live in a world gone wrong. To keep his sanity, Ben writes a heartfelt blog about his life after the zombie apocalypse. He calls it his Journal of the Living . Journal of the Living is an action adventure thriller, containing gore and violence, for fans of dystopian zombie apocalypse horror stories like The Walking Dead and Z-Nation .