A year and a half after a virus sealed North America, Boston’s resistance is breaking. Icelandic smugglers are the only lifeline, trading supplies for American relics. When a Zone resident is offered a mission that could change his life, he knows one truth: the reward is worthless if he doesn’t make it out alive. The core idea of 'Monster Hunting in Newtonville' is that, instead of going on a traditional safari, a wealthy oligarch sneaks into a quarantine zone created by a deadly outbreak to hunt and kill infected people. The story questions treating the innocently infected as trophies, and how far boredom can drive someone in pursuit of ever more extreme thrills. The novel is the prequel to the Amazon bestseller 'Welcome to the Silent Zone'; the film adaptation of that novel has since been added to Hulu’s catalog, where it became one of the trending horror movies.