This book actually shocked my socks off! Just when I thought I've heard it, seen it all, I was thrown for a loop. A troubling loop at that, too. "Ebola" is very relevant to our society today and Adair left me heavily questioning our society.Are we as Americans really that sheltered and that far r...
I leaned in close, though the intercom didn’t get any louder or softer. “Are you saying you’re the only survivors?” Fritz pointed down at the building we’d just rescued him from. It slowly shrank below as the helicopter rose. “From where we were in the ph...
There were bodies of the infected scattered everywhere. Car windows were smashed. The small old houses had belched their contents and dead occupants out onto the lawns. Under the boughs of the grand old oaks that had shaded the streets for decades, Murphy’s neighbors had f...
Oh, well. If things were easy, they wouldn’t be interesting. I hit the top of the next hill, and it opened up to a grassy plateau sprinkled with the widely spaced admin buildings of various shapes and sizes, all single-story structures except one, t...
Inside, Olivia Cooper and Barry Middleton shared the desk. The room was bigger than the one Eric and Olivia had occupied earlier in the day. It held an oblong table designed to seat six. In the center of the table sat a conference call phone set and a projector, which at the moment wasn’t hooked ...
That question always came up. At first Olivia embarked on a lengthy, frilly explanation to cover the fact her real purpose was to get Austin’s feet back on American soil. Somewhere during those calls she told them, “Look out the window. You see what’s going on, right? Everybody’s pulling their...
The neighbor Maggie, whom Heidi had told about Paul’s prepper stash that day after his first trip to Costco all those weeks ago. It was Maggie who Paul was worried would tell everyone in the neighborhood about his fifty-pound bags of rice and other goodies. Paul got a sink...