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Joe Schreiber was born in Michigan but spent his formative years in Alaska, Wyoming, and northern California. Until recently, he had never lived at the same address for longer than a year. Becoming a parent forced him to consider a career with more reliable income, and he got a job as an MRI tech in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where he lives with his wife and their two children.

When the Imperial prison barge Purge–temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves–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–bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.

And death is only the beginning.

The Purge’s half-dozen survivors–two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board–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’t really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.

Library Journal

Imperial prison ship Purge breaks down in space near an apparently abandoned Star Destroyer that might hold the necessary parts to repair the ship. What the crew finds aboard the derelict battleship brings a nightmarish reality to ship doctor Zahara Cody, a pair of brothers imprisoned for their father's supposed crimes, and two very special prisoners held in the Purge's deepest confines. Horror writer Schreiber (Chase the Dead) combines his knowledge of psychological and visceral terror with his love for Star Wars® to create the first horror novel set in George Lucas's classic film and storytelling universe. VERDICT This gory tale of survival against unspeakable odds should appeal to a multitude of fans, though it is not for the squeamish.