"I have one unbreakable rule out here in the San Francisco ruins: if the payout is too high, the catch is usually fatal. When a guy in clean clothes drops a king's ransom on my desk for a simple snatch-and-grab, I should have shown him the door. Instead, I ignored the math.

The target was a reinforced CDC cooler buried deep inside the belly of The Leviathan, a massive cargo freighter that ran aground near Alcatraz three years ago. It was supposed to be a quick trip. But when a rogue wave shatters your only ride home, the math changes fast. Now, I'm stranded on a sinking ghost ship in the middle of a storm.

Trapped in a claustrophobic steel maze with a half-mad quartermaster speaking in nautical riddles, I have to fight my way through a waterlogged crew of the infected who refuse to stay dead. The hull is breaking apart, the horde is awake, and the freezing bay is a death sentence. I'm Ray Corbin. I'm about to find out exactly what a miracle costs in a dying world... and whether this payday is finally the one that puts me in the ground."

A hard-boiled, survival-horror audio drama from the Zombie Podcast Network. Coming soon to zompod.com or anywhere you get your podcasts.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Just as Ray realizes the quarantine zone has become a cage and prepares to flee for his life, a mysterious, fragile stranger knocks on his office door—potentially offering a desperate way out, or sealing his brutal fate for good.

Ray Corbin has survived the San Francisco wasteland for three years by sticking to two unbreakable rules: never take risks, and never believe in fairy tales. But when a naive file clerk named Penny Finch straps on a makeshift suit of rusted tin armor to rescue the woman he loves, Ray finds himself dragged headfirst into a suicide mission.

Hunted by ruthless mob enforcers and surrounded by hundreds of dormant "sleepers" inside the ruined Palace of Fine Arts, Ray and Penny must rely on a desperate mix of grit, heavy iron, and impossible hope. Will the Noir Knight save his princess, or will the fog finally claim them all?

A hard-boiled, survival-horror audio drama from the Zombie Podcast Network. Listen now on zompod.com or anywhere you get your podcasts.