Ex-mercenary, pirate, and gun-runner Dante Bogart knows he screwed the pooch big-time when he handed his shady employer a biological weapon that made the dead rise from their graves, laugh like hyenas, and feast upon the living. Dante even tried to blow the whistle via a tell-all video that went viral - but that was before the black ops boys deep-sixed him at a secret interrogation site on the Panama-Colombia border. When Dante wakes up in the jungle with the five intervening years missing from his memory, he knows he's got to do something about the laughing sickness that has caused a worldwide slaughter. The resulting journey leads him across the nightmare that was the Panama Canal, around Cape Horn in a hijacked nuclear warship, to San Francisco's mission district, where a crew of survivalist hackers have holed up in the pseudo-Moorish castle turned porn studio known as The Armory. This mixed band of antisocial rejects has taken Dante's whistle-blowing video as an underground gospel, leading the fight against the laughing corpses and the corporate stooges who've tried to profit from the slaughter. Can Dante find redemption and save civilization, or will he get his sorry ass eaten by a tiger?