Landfall_Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series by Justin Bell & Mike Kraus

Author:Justin Bell & Mike Kraus [Bell, Justin & Kraus, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Muonic Press Inc
Published: 2018-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

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Now.

Monday, July 20th.

The Iranian Desert.

It felt like forever and no time at all, all at once. The trucks bounced relentlessly over the rough desert sands, twisting north from the vacated village where Marcus and his group ran into the stragglers from the 65th NOHED Brigade out of Iran. It hadn’t been that long that they’d been traveling; he’d watched the steady progression of the moon and sun from the back of the truck, and it had seemed like only hours, and not very many at that.

But the news about Washington, about the very heart and soul of his nation, had hit him like a deep punch to the solar plexus, leaving him gasping and struggling to find his center of balance. Things had been hard enough in recent years, made only harder by the orbital disaster almost three weeks previous, but he’d always held that beacon in his mind, that shimmering light of returning home, and now one of the key symbols of that home was no more. His fear went deeper than that, as well, it wasn’t just about the destruction of a symbol, it was the idea that a nation, and a world, which had only been staying together by very thin threads, was now potentially being plunged into an even deeper state of revolution and lawlessness.

He couldn’t help but think of his family, wondering how they would be doing in a country with no effective government, no laws, and being further drawn down into a deep, anarchist pit. It was bad enough that he didn’t even know if they’d survived the tsunami on the west coast, but even if they had, the four of them alone against a country with no governmental or law enforcement structure… he didn’t even want to think.

During deployment, he’d been in the middle of nations which were suddenly and visibly without their government, and it didn’t take long for the citizenship at large to fall into revolution—active, violent, aggressive revolution—and in those instances they had generally been small, rural, third world nations. Something like that happening to one of the largest, most powerful and industrious nations on the planet?

“Sarge?” a hand settled on Marcus’s shoulder and he shook awake. Chung Hua was sitting low next to him, his face looking grave in the low light. Marcus couldn’t help but smile softly. Chung was a civilian, not one of his Highlanders, but had taken to calling him Sarge just the same, along with the rest of the Marines.

“Yeah, what’s up, Chung? How are you holding together?” It occurred to Marcus that he hadn’t really had a chance to check on him, and figured his mental state must be a little sideways after living through the chaos and gunfire. He was a college kid who had never seen a warzone before, yet here he was, smack dab in the middle of what could possibly be the largest and most final conflict this world has ever seen.

Chung chewed his lip and looked back at Bojing

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