Chapter 3 Summary

The interviewer is talking with Gavin Blaire, a pilot of a D-17 combat dirigible, at the Parnell Air National Guard Base: Memphis, Tennessee.While flying over Nebraska, he saw cars and trucks stretched to the horizon, and thousands of people panicked, in traffic, with zombies among them, taking them from cars and killing them. What haunts him most is that no one on the road had a destination, since all towns were infected. They simply joined a panic.

The narrator is interviewing Ajay Shah on the beach of a ruined, crowded shipyard in Alang, India. When Ajay arrived to attempt escape, all he and thousands of others found were hulls of former vessels. Smaller boats shuttled people back and forth for money, and some refused passengers because of their skin color or caste. Shah attempted to swim and was saved by a sailor...