Eight years ago, an infection tore through London. The military contained what they could. Riots claimed the rest. And the disease—a creeping, all-consuming horror known as the Rot—took almost everyone else.

Colin Bolton survived. Just.

Set in a brutally realised post-apocalyptic Great Britain, The Rot is not your average zombie series. It is a raw, character-driven story about survival, humanity, and the darkness people carry long after the world has ended. Colin is no action hero — he is a man with a past he can’t outrun, doing his best in a world that keeps punishing him for trying.

Gritty, atmospheric, and driven by prose that cuts like broken glass, Willcocks and Kondor have created something that stands apart: post-apocalyptic fiction with real literary bite.