β Scribed by John Birmingham
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Birmingham's Angels of Vengeance.
The world changed forever when a massive wave of energy slammed into North America and wiped out 99 percent of the population. As the United States lay in ruins, chaos erupted across the globe.
Now, while a skeleton American government tries to reconstruct the nation, swarms of pirates and foreign militias plunder the lawless wasteland where even the president is fair prey. In New York City, armies of heavily armed predators hold swayβand hold off a struggling U.S. military. In Texas, a rogue general bent on secession leads a brutal campaign against immigrants. And in England, a U.S. special ops agent enters a shadow war against a deadly enemy who has made the fight personal. While the president ponders a blitz attack on Americaβs once greatest city, the forces of order and anarchy wage all-out war for postapocalyptic dominanceβand a handful of survivors must decide how far to go to salvage whatever uncertain future awaits . . . after America.
In this sequel to Without Warning, Birmingham delivers a stirring account of the events after "the Disappearance," tracking a group of survivors in New York, Seattle, Texas, Kansas City, Berlin, Salisbury, and London. Shortly before the Iraq War, a wave of unknown energy passes over most of North America, scouring humanity and triggering chaos. Now the wave is gone, and the survivors face the challenges of rebuilding their empty continents. In the Texas Administrative Division, an ex-general wages a war of ethnic cleansing against the new immigrants coming in search of opportunity; in New York, hoards of scavengers pick through the ruins of the city. Meanwhile, over a billion Muslims are left homeless after Israeli nukes make the Middle East uninhabitable, and they need somewhere to live. As American forces attempt to retake the East Coast, an inexperienced president finds his leadership tested. Though his dialogue often feels functional or formulaic, Birmingham's inspired speculation is ingenious and engrossing. Along with colorful if not entirely sympathetic characters and a wicked sense of the absurd, this should make excellent pool-side reading.
Copyright Β© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
βBirminghamβs inspired speculation is ingenious and engrossing.ββ Publishers Weekly
βInteresting geopolitics, incredible action, and pirate battles make this a perfect end-of-summer read.ββio9
βJohn Birminghamβs ability to seamlessly merge the gritty realism of Tom Clancy with the raw speculation of Michael Crichton is like nothing else Iβve ever read.ββJames Rollins, author of The Doomsday Key, on Without Warning
From the Paperback edition.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government he
March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government he
Elia Kazan, ethnic Greek but Turkish by birth, tells the story of the struggles of his uncle in emigrating to America. In the 1890's, the young, kind-hearted but naive Stavros Topouzoglou lives in Anatolia, where the Greek and Armenian minorities are repressed by the Turks, often through violent mea