City of the Dead

by S.D. Perry

Book Overview

Leon Kennedy, a rookie cop on a new assignment, and Claire Redfield, sister of the still-missing S.T.A.R.S. member Chris, arrive at Raccoon City to discover a necropolis. A botched attempt by the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671024418
• ISBN13: 9780671024413
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent!!

Pages has spotting on it but overall it’s easy to read and great!! I love the resident evil series!

Fan of the games or not, this is an incredible read

City of the Dead, the third book in S.D. Perry's series of Resident Evil novels, more than covers all the ground from the video game it is based and adapted from (Resident Evil 2), but it is all the more compelling, scary, and suspenseful and is the true definition of a "page turner". The story begins a few months after the incident at the mansion in Raccoon City when rookie cop Leon Kennedy arrives for his first day on the job. When he arrives in the town; he finds it desserted minus the re-animated corpses with a taste for human flesh strolling around. He soon meets up with Claire Redfield who is searching for her brother Chris (the hero from the first game and novel); and the two encounter a host of other characters human and non-human alike. Perry's knack for developing her characters is in full effect here, and the reader never feels left out when the action goes full throttle. City of the Dead flows nearly identical to the game it is adapted from, which fans of the game will no doubt be pleased with. All in all, City of the Dead is one of, if not the, best books in Perry's Resident Evil series, and even if your not a fan of the games but are a fan of horror and zombie films than you should definitely give this a look.

New Found Fan

I am a new fan to the 'Resident Evil' saga. The first RE game I played was RE2, and I found it very interesting. Just the other week I was looking through a Walden Books store and I found that the RE saga was also in novel form.I picked up the book and read only a couple pages when I was hooked. I bought 'City of the Dead' and finished it in one week. The book was excellent! I liked the way the author carefully detailed the zombies, the Re3 (the Licker) and Mr.X, the genetically enhanced creature that stalked Sherry Birkin and Claire Redfield. Shortly after reading the book I struck up a strong interest in the saga. By the way, Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield are my favorite characters.Overall I fully enjoyed 'Resident Evil 2: City of the Dead'. The detail really outstanded me and I get the full effect when I read it at midnight! Great stuff...now I get to collect the entire novel series!

A Wonderful Book!

I am normally one of the worst people at reading novels, but when I finished this book, I looked back and discovered that I had read about 120 pages in only 3 hours! That blew me away! It's just that Resident Evil 2 the game was so unbelievably great, and I could now see it in an even more movie like format! Leon Kennedy was always in my eyes much more of a hero than Chris Redfield, being more courageous and selfless. It's mainly because Leon took a bullet for Ada, went back for her even though there were zombies in the way, and tries to save her after she was going to shoot him if he didn't give her the super G-Virus.This book shows his endurance with more detail, like where he lands on his bullet wound several times, takes it each time, and always continues. Wow, what a guy! Not that I don't like Claire Redfield, I do, and not just because she was the first video game character that I got dirty thoughts of. She also endures a lot, but it wasn't until this book that I really understood. In this book, Claire hesitates to shoot the first zombie she is cornered by, because it is a living target. Detail like that is all over the book, and it is really amazing. The gore is explained in gut-wrenching clarity too, and some tortured thoughts of Annette Birkin and Chief Irons are also presented wonderfully.One of the only gripes I had with this book is that you always know that Ada is a spy, unlike in the game where you don't find out until the end. Even worse, the most dramatic scene in the game (actually, I can only think of a few Hollywood scenes more powerful) is when Ada dies, and the novel's version is almost unbelievably un-dramatic. However, apart from those, this is an easy read for those bad at reading, and this book is not only for fans of the game/series, but of anyone who enjoys a thrilling read. I wish that S. D. Perry was a twenty-two or so year old and not married, for I like the way she thinks, and I would most likely ask her out! Oh well. This book is still a sensation! Get it!

The best book ever

This book is the best it was better than the game i enjoyed it very much and i recament that all residnt evil fans read it.