I'm hate-reading it for my book club. It already sucks for a bunch of reasons but it's also nakedly jingoistic in ways I don't even think the author understands because I think he's just a dumb rich kid (his father is Mel Brooks).
It's a zombie apocalypse book. The baseline we're working with is: if a country is a 
country its policies are good-to-neutral (for example Israel wisely accumulates all evidence of outbreaks and is the first to publish a report to warn the world, then is the only country to quarantine BUT SINCE THEY'RE SO WISE AND GRACIOUS THEY ALSO GRANT RIGHT OF RETURN SO PALESTINIANS CAN QUARANTINE WITH THEM) but any official enemy is disastrous evil (China hides the outbreak from the world, Russia slaughters their own troops to maintain rank, Iran starts a nuclear war). Also doesn't hesitate to slip in liberal conspiracy theories about them - the PLA makes millions selling human organs (extracted from live, unwilling subjects), Iran completes their nuclear program with assistance from DPRK.
I haven't got into the armed forces idolatry like there's so much that sucks about this book but this is the quote that made my eyes bulge out of my head:
Now, I am a good soldier, but I am also a West German. You understand the difference? In the East, they were told that they were not responsible for the atrocities of the Second World War, that as good communists, they were just as much victims of Hitler as anyone else. You understand why the skinheads and proto-fascists were mainly in the East? They did not feel the responsibility of the past, not like we did in the West. We were taught since birth to bear the burden of our grandfathers’ shame. We were taught that, even if we wore a uniform, that our first sworn duty was to our conscience, no matter what the consequences.
Fuck this dumb book how did it receive such universal praise 
This the book where the US follows a genocidal plan created by one of the architects of apartheid South Africa. and abandons the population , resources and industry of everything to the east of the rocky mountains.
This is portrayed as a brave and courageous sacrifice, and not an an incredibly stupid and insane thing to do.
they did this after, somehow, zombies just totally overran like an actual set up killbox meant to murder zombies, like idk I'm sure zombies are tough and all but they can't bite into a tank, artillery would just shred them, and so would like any number of high caliber guns, like, idk, I feel like the battle of yonkers or what the fuck ever was p. stupid
this is mostly because the guy who made the book couldn't decide wether he wanted ''realistic'' rage-virus zombies that are restricted to all the limits of the human body and can die like any other person, or straight from the grave undead zombies that can only be killed with very specific, arbitrary circumstances like silver bullets or destroying the head, etc.... So as far as i remember his logic about the battle of yonkers is that artillery and bombs were useless because uhhhhh .....it can't destroy the head???
IKR I stated l started trying explain and was like fuck how do I stop there's so much to talk about