Upon escaping the garage they find Frankie fighting zombies in the front yard badly hurt from the fall and shot several times.
Back in Hellertown Ob has taken Baker's body and is instructing his minions to make a motor pool from all the abandoned vehicles.
Jim loses it and violently kills the zombie, punctuating each blow with the words "I told you to leave my son alone."
Jim leads the zombies away distracting them from his party including a very badly injured Frankie making plans to meet them in what looks like an abandoned parking structure.
Ob then lays siege to last remaining humans holed up in Ramsey towers, using heavy artillery he is able to breach the supposedly impenetrable building.
Sometime before the final act however, Frankie has a dream in which the spirit of Martin talks to her, laying out the complex plan set up by Ob and his minions.
Don D'Ammassa of the SF, Fantasy & Horror's Monthly Trade Journal wrote: "Less ambitious and original than his other novels, but no less well written.
"[3] Monica S. Kuebler of the Rue Morgue wrote that the novel "cranks the action up to eleven and, Keene deserves serious props for.