A writer's fictional alter ego wants to take over his life...at any price.

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

After years of being tread upon and cheated on, a man awakens to find his face has a been replaced by a blank, white mask.

A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies.

In 2003, 30 years after they served together in the Vietnam War, former Navy Hospital Corpsman Richard "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with ex-Marines Sal and Mueller on a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc decides to forgo burial at Arlington Cemetery and, with the help of his old buddies, takes the casket on a bittersweet trip up the East Coast to his home in suburban New Hampshire.