the Long Cold Dark: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Surviving EMP: Book One)

When an electromagnetic pulse kills the grid in an instant, Stuart Redman thinks he's ready. He has a farmhouse at the end of a county road, a stocked pantry, and a brand-new pistol on his kitchen table.He's wrong about all of it.The gun can't keep him warm. It can't turn snow into safe water, or dry his soaked boots before the cold takes his toes, or stretch two months of food across a five-month winter. As the temperature drops and the real enemy reveals itself, Stuart discovers the terrifying truth every survival fantasy leaves out: the cold doesn't care how brave you are. It has killed more people than every war in history, and it's patient, and it's coming.Then the marauders come up his road. And a fierce old woman with a Thompson submachine gun comes down off her ridge to save a stranger she's never met.Ruth Maddox knows things Stuart never learned in the soft years, hard things about fire and warmth and what it really takes to live through ninety days of dark. But knowledge isn't enough. Out beyond the trees waits a town full of desperate men, a clever and merciless Marshal building a kingdom of fear, and a hollow-eyed survivor whose loyalty may be the deadliest threat of all.To live until spring, Stuart will have to lose everything he thought made him safe, and learn the one lesson that separates the living from the dead: Nobody survives the long cold dark alone.A relentless, white-knuckle EMP survival thriller about heat, hunger, hard choices, and the people we keep each other alive for. Perfect for readers of One Second After, Going Home, and The Road.

Pagina's: 232, Paperback, Independently published