Read Series: Darkest And Dawn
by Author Neal Barrett Jr.
Book
Dawn's Uncertain Light (1989)
In an America devastated by the ultimate war, he sought to rescue his sister from an inhuman doomSilver Island was a place out of legend, the chosen citadel where the government began building a new and better America from the ashes of a war-ravaged land. And lucky indeed were the specially Chose...
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Through Darkest America (Isaac Asimov Presents) (1988)
I really liked 80% of this book. Even among the almost always grim post-apocalyptic genre, it ranks as one the darkest things I've ever read, if not the darkest. It's got cannibalism, people skinned alive, dismemberment of sensitive body parts and many deaths. Much of it is executed well, though....