Turning the Tide

This chapter discusses the way various governments had to make tough decisions to deal with the outbreak. Much of the chapter is focused on how the different versions of the Redeker plan were carried out in various countries who sacrificed there own citizens for security. One particularly drastic example of this came from the Rajastahn, India chapter where a BRO officer is charged with blowing up a road in the Himalayas to secure the mountain from zombies but the road is still full of refugees trying to cross. The army was unable to keep the panicked civilians from trying to cross so the order was given to blow the bridge up no matter how many people were on it. The general explained how even if they refused, the air force would just bomb the thing which would destroy part of the mountain which would provide the zombies access to the other side making the barrier useless. After the charges fail to explode, General Raj-Singh sacrifices himself to complete the mission. The thing that stood about about this chapter for me is the imagery of the zombies falling off the cliff when Khan wakes up. He described as sounding like water droplets dripping but in reality it was the horde still trying to get to him and falling, in turn, to hit the valley far below.