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===''Into Ploughshares'' (2015)=== | ===''Into Ploughshares'' (2015)=== | ||
''Into Ploughshares'' was published on 13 February [[2015]]. It takes primarily place more than four years after ''All That Remains'', introducing a timeshift forward for all seven major characters. The Survivors Union established in the first two novels now has dozens of individuals living on a large compound that was once a farm, led by the five main characters who are in it as of the previous novel. Unlike the first two novels, ''Into Ploughshares'' deals with the relationships between the five protagonists as the immediate danger of zombie attack and starvation are no longer as apparent. ''Into Ploughshares'' eschews major character interaction with the plague zombies, who are implied to still be an important threat but who stay away from the Survivors Union compound. Meanwhile, the two other main characters introduced in ''All That Remain'' lead militaristic tribes who feud with eachother and others, and who both deeply resent the Survivors Union. Towards the end of the novel, it is revealed part of the Survivors Union success in keeping zombies away was use of technology to direct zombie hordes to other, non-Survivors Union settlements, the source of hatred of the tribes for the Union. This practice is alluded to throughout the novel, and at the very end of ''Into Ploughshares'' two of the five main characters and dozens of others depart the settlement, deeply disappointed by the immoral choices of their former colleagues. | |||
Although nonlinear storytelling was a staple of the first two novels, ''Into Ploughshares'' is the first novel in the series to not have any Third Great War-era flashback sequences at all. The remaining two mainline novels would also eschew them. Geronato incorporated the conclusion of several of the flashback plotlines originally intended to be in ''Into Ploughshares'' as the core of the [[2020]] prequel ''Beast of Seven Heads''. | Although nonlinear storytelling was a staple of the first two novels, ''Into Ploughshares'' is the first novel in the series to not have any Third Great War-era flashback sequences at all. The remaining two mainline novels would also eschew them. Geronato incorporated the conclusion of several of the flashback plotlines originally intended to be in ''Into Ploughshares'' as the core of the [[2020]] prequel ''Beast of Seven Heads''. | ||