The interstate led into the very suburbs taken over by the freemen, and it was an ideal place to start. A wall would prevent unwanted outsiders from entering his town, including rival gangs. It would hinder interference from the authorities and protect his autonomous control. It was a necessary m...
There was no day of the week more exciting. At the sound of the bell, more than five hundred children poured outside their brick-building classrooms at the ringing of the final bell, eager to get home and get ready for the weekend. A line of vehicles idled along the parent pickup lane, just past ...
Bodies lay everywhere—townspeople who had foolishly stormed into the camp unarmed, crazed, and violent. Rob didn’t know what had turned them into a horde of wild-eyed maniacs, but he had his suspicions. The fraudulent mayor, who had taken over the town with his gang of criminals, probably had so...
She had no idea how long she had been out for. The sun was still out and she could hear movement all around her. Curtis was nowhere to be seen. She rose up from the chair with a sore neck and scanned the empty room where boxes were strewn across the floor. A large water bottle had been placed at ...
The once busy downtown Main Street of local shops, coffee houses, and diners had become virtually deserted. Cars lined the streets, long abandoned—some with their doors hanging open. The normally idyllic town was absent its residents, who had simply fled in droves. The streets were deserted and t...
He forgot for a moment, where he was. If the hydroelectric plant that provided hundreds of thousands of residents with electricity no longer had any juice, it was unlikely that power existed anywhere else in the area. Therefore, the question of whom to contact first became an issue in itself. The...
It was no hotel bed; that much was certain, as everything was smaller within their cramped conditions. She was unsure of the time or day. Over two weeks underground in a secured bunker had altered her perception of hours, days, and weeks. The only information she had to go on was what Senator Bry...
You could see the door to the clubhouse was open from the street and the patches on the backs of members could be seen inside. Jake stood in a circle surrounded by his MC. The worn faces of men who’d lived their lives in the wind, sun, and rain looked at their president, hungry. “Diablos, this ci...
The desert, vast and barren, stretched for untold miles. A windstorm had picked up, pushing a blanket of sand in all directions. Amid the rolling headwinds sat a hideout obscured by night and covered by a tan canopy that concealed the clay-and-stone building even in brightness of day. Such covert...