The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor
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| Author | Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga |
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| Country |
 United States
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Post-apocalyptic and horror |
| Publisher | Thomas Dunne Books, a division of St. Martin's Press |
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Publication date
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October 11, 2011 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 307 |
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| Followed by | The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury (2012) |
The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor is a post-apocalyptic horror novel written by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga and released October 11, 2011. The novel is a spin-off of The Walking Dead comic book series and explores the back-story of one of the series' most infamous characters, The Governor. Rise of the Governor is the first in a trilogy of novels.The Walking Dead's fourth season utilizes plots from the novel, the Chalmers family in particular.
I always kind of looked at it like Rick and the Governor were two sides of the same coin. If Rick had gone down a certain path he could have ended up exactly like that guy. And so I had a story in mind of how he became that guy and what caused him to be that bad of a person.
The novel follows the story of Philip Blake, his daughter Penny, his older brother Brian, and his friends Bobby and Nick as they struggle to survive in a world ravaged by the zombie apocalypse.
The hungry group of survivors is hiding in a large house within the private neighborhood of Wiltshire Estates, planning to move on to Atlanta, where a "safe zone" is supposedly located. A walker comes out of its hiding place and infects Bobby with the undead plague, killing him. Distraught, the remaining four group members continue on.
Once in Atlanta, they find the city swarming with walkers. The group frantically flees from a large herd of undead until they hear a voice calling them to an apartment building. The voice belongs to April Chalmers, who lets them into the building that she and her father, Dave, and sister, Tara, have secured.
The elderly David expires and turns without having been bitten. After Philip "kills" David, tension grows between him and Tara. Philip sexually assaults April. The morning afterwards, April is nowhere to be found, and Tara forced the group, at gunpoint, to leave the building.
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