I just grabbed DMQZ, a free Kindle novel, on a recommendation. Sounds a bit like the excellent Last Policeman.
In the wake of the global pandemic known as the “little dormouse,” the line between the Safe Zone and the Quarantine Zone divides New York City. The shores and waters of the East River are the “DMQZ,” the uninhabited area that separates uninfected Manhattan from the slowly dying borough of Brooklyn. Jacob Hale is a Manhattan police officer rising in the ranks of the Safe Zone military government until a bank heist gone wrong lands him on suspension and under suspicion. On a quest to clear his good name, Hale finds himself drawn into a web of conspiracy, terrorism, and revolt – and into the orbit of a mysterious woman who may be the key to it all.
