Charlie Matthias

A ruthless bounty/zombie hunter that resided in the Mountainside and known as one of the best by the young residents, especially in the eyes of Benny early in the book. His long time partner is 'the Hammer'. He sees no respect for the zombies out in the Ruin and tells his stories of his time out there hunting zombies. Charlie, unbeknownst to Benny and Tom, spent years kidnapping kids from towns and making them fight zoms in Gameland. Not only did Charlie and the Motor City Hammer do it but a bunch of other bounty hunters went along with it.

He was nicknamed by Tom as Charlie Pink-eye, though felt being mocked, he is always cautious of Tom because of their encounter at Sunset Hollow; a place where Tom lived before the first night and where Tom and Benny's parents resided after they both turned into zoms. Charlie Pink Eye entered the gated community with a handful of bounty hunters when Tom was already there. After warnings for Charlie and his posse to leave, Tom killed everyone but Charlie, only leaving him alive to spread a warning about Sunset Hollow.

Personality
His personality varies from person to person but he is mainly nasty and threatening to everyone. If you do not agree with and and do as he says when he says it then he will show you the worst side of him. Even not laughing at his jokes will get you on his bad side.

Appearance
"Charlie had a seventy-inch chest and twenty-four-inch biceps" and he smelt like anabolic steroids and Jack Daniels. He was six-foot, six-inch albino with one blue eye and one pink eye that was milky and blind.

Battle of Charlie's Camp
While in Lilah's cave/home her, Benny, and Nix came up with a plan to free the kids from Charlie's camp that he and 21 bounty hunters were going to take to the New Gameland. The plan was a suicide mission and seemed a lot more like improve and sheer dumb luck. Lilah's part was to free every zombie that was tied to a tree in Charlie's dead forest by using her blood and leading them up the mountain to Charlie's camp. She was late coming back and Benny feared the worst but he and Nix continued anyways. After Benny killed a guard he lit a tent on fire in the camp and made a distraction for Nix to get to the kids in a cage but Charlie was already waiting for her by the cage. Charlie made Nix drop her weapons but Benny made a distraction for her and Nix freed the kids. The kids ran right into Benny and they screamed then Charlie came down to see Benny and The Hammer captured Nix. Benny and Charlie had a chat when Tom came into the camp on a horse and stabbed one of the bounty hunters. Lilah came back with thousands of zoms that surrounded the camp and chaos ensued ending with all the bounty hunters dead. Tom told Nix, Benny and Lilah to run down and empty trail which they did only to run into a furious Charlie. Both Nix and Lilah tried to strike him but failed until Benny hit him with a pipe over the head. Charlie took a few steps and fell off the mountain.