Economic Creatures. Book one - A story about the undead

Book 1 of 3: Hardy is a hotheaded young man who turns his back on his homeland, driven by personal demons, and enlists in the military. But war is nothing like the stories-its brutal reality drags him into a world of corruption, betrayal, and ruthless power struggles. When secret service agent Frank pulls him out of one disaster only to offer him a job in another, Hardy plunges even tiefer in the murky depths of elite conspiracies.
Just when he thinks he's hit rock bottom, fate proves him wrong. Locked away in a Russian prison, serving a life sentence, he watches the world outside collapse. A mysterious plague spreads like wildfire, turning the dead into insatiable predators. Cut off from civilization, trapped in the icy wastelands, the prison becomes a death trap where survival is measured in days-if not hours. Then Bartosz arrives.
A man on the run, claiming the apocalypse isn't just a freak event of nature. He swears that one single creature unleashed this nightmare upon the world. As the undead break through the prison's defenses, Hardy, Bartosz, and a small band of survivors attempt a daring escape. Their only hope lies in a remote cabin deep within Russia's endless forests. But the undead are just the beginning. Starvation, the merciless cold, and the true monsters lurking in human hearts make survival a brutal challenge.
As Hardy fights for his life, he discovers something unexpected: himself. But just when he begins to believe in something greater than survival, it attacks. The creature that was supposed to be a myth. And now, for Hardy, the fight is no longer just about making it out alive. It's personal. Economic Creatures is Denny N. Dwight's adrenaline-charged love letter to the horror and action films of the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.
Packed with callbacks, references, and classic undead carnage, this story doesn't just embrace the genre's tropes-it cranks them up to eleven.