The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury

  The voice in her head—firing across the synapses in her brain—reaches her lips on barely a whisper, directed at the Governor.

  “Soon … when you’re not needed … this will be you.”

  She brings the axe down again and again.

  Also by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga

  The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  Robert Kirkman is best known for his work on The Walking Dead and Invincible for Image Comics and SKYBOUND. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics and is an executive producer and writer on AMC’s critically acclaimed television series The Walking Dead.

  Jay Bonansinga is a critically acclaimed horror novelist whose works include Perfect Victim, Shattered, Twisted, and Frozen. His debut novel, The Black Mariah, was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award.

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.

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  THE WALKING DEAD: THE ROAD TO WOODBURY. Copyright © 2012 by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Cover design by Lisa Marie Pompilio

  Cover photographs: girl by Shane Rebenschied; background by Christophe Dessaigne

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Kirkman, Robert.

  The road to Woodbury / Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga. — 1st ed.

  p. cm. — (The walking dead series; no. 2 of 3)

  ISBN 978-0-312-54774-5 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-1-250-01344-6 (e-book)

  1. Zombies—Fiction. 2. Atlanta Region (Ga.)—Fiction. I. Bonansinga, Jay R. II. Title.

  PS3611.I7555R63 2012

  813'.6—dc23

  2012028306

  E-ISBN 9781250013446

  First Edition: October 2012