Résultats pour "John" dans Post-apocalyptique

On Zero Day of the first and last cyberwar in human history, the internet went dark, transport and power grids collapsed and cities began to starve, showing just how vulnerable the world could be to a targeted campaign of online sabotage. This final installment of this prescient epic of civilisation collapse finds the small ragtag band of survivors come together to face a new, but eerily familiar threat - the rise of a fascist militia among the ruins of a failing country.

Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. He longs for this to be over; longs to be somewhere else. He will soon find out what Defenders do and who the Others are. Along with the rest of his squad, he will endure cold and fear day after day, night after night. 

Already cited on the floor of Congress and discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a book all Americans should read, One Second After is the story of a war scenario that could become all too terrifyingly real. Based upon a real weapon - the Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) - which may already be in the hands of our enemies, it is a truly realistic look at the awesome power of a weapon that can destroy the entire United States.

They call it Hell Day - a world war that lasted less than 24 hours. Nations unleashed weapons that destroyed more than a century’s worth of technology. Electrical grids cannot generate power. Communications and computers cannot run. And the remnants of the US government cannot be depended upon. Those who survived must live as their ancestors did, off a land ruled by the whims of nature. Onetime congressional representative Victoria Emerson has become the new leader of the small town of Ortho, West Virginia. 

"Der Tod" wird dich finden... Devin Chase ging bloß seinem Alltag nach, als die Welt schlagartig aus den Angeln gehoben wurde. Binnen einer Woche suchte ein fatales Virus, dem man den Namen "Der Tod" gab, die Erde heim und streckte 90 Prozent aller Infizierten nieder. Nach sechs Monaten in selbst auferlegter Quarantäne tritt Devin hinaus in eine neue Welt. Unterwegs trifft er andere Menschen, die immun sind wie er, entdeckt aber auch, dass die Welt, wie er sie kannte, nicht mehr existiert.

Battle-hardened Captain Ry Devans and his crew of the Mars Orbiting Station-1 are part of a bold plan: resurrect the active molten cores of the Red Planet with synchronized thermonuclear explosions, and terraform the hell out of that iron-oxide rock for future generations. It'll change history. So will the strands of carbon-based Martian cells that have hitched a ride on the ship. Dr. Karen Wagner knows the microbes' resistance to virus is incredible. It's the unknowable that's dicey. Her orders: blow them into space. But orders can be undermined.

Eco-terrorists unleash the worst attack the world has ever seen. Over 25,000 autonomous combat drones are released in Manhattan. Hundreds of thousands are dead, and the entire island is evacuated and quarantined in just a few days' time. Ten years later, Manhattan is still empty of humans, with the exception of the salvage specialists of the most watched reality show in history: Zone War. Produced live and unedited, the show follows five teams of armored vehicle specialists who brave the active drones to recover lost riches and collect bounties on dead ones. 

It took just a few weeks for a plague called the Death to wipe out over 90% of the world’s population. Those who survived thought themselves lucky until the world that remained came into stark relief. Devin Chase, a writer by trade and urban dweller sits in his apartment in New York unaware that his fiancé is the first victim of a worldwide pandemic called the Death. Upon learning of his fiancé’s condition he sets out to find her.

John Hollie leads a comfortable life as a civil engineer. That is, until a series of machine-made actions cause tsunamis to flood the lands. Forced to flee his home, he and others make their way to the mountains, where it is safer to live than on ground level.

Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fireballs race through the sky above the deepest trenches of the oceans. Something is about to show itself, something terrible and alien, a force capable of causing global catastrophe.

John the Baptist serves his people as a weapons master devoted to keeping the peace. The murder of his wife leaves him plagued with guilt and secretly dependent on herbs that help him numb the pain of loss. But when he realizes Herod's desire to conquer Egypt will lead to his people's conscription, the world-weary warrior rises above his addiction to keep them safe.

The day America fell, Zeek was just a high school kid 500 miles from home. Stranded in southern Utah when America collapses, Zeek sets out with his best friends, determined to survive and find a way home. Every night on the road is a test, keeping his injured teammates safe, dodging ruthless gangs, and holding on to hope that his family is still alive.

Message from Inner Space, is a chilling, end-of-the-world story of an impending ELE, but not from a comet or asteroid—from within. Physics PhD., Dr. Hope Leanders and her colleagues at SETI, detect a reoccurring signal that seemed to be coming from outer space. After further investigation, they find that the signal actually emanates from Earth, travels into space, then ricochets back to the ground, making it appear to come from space.

Nash and Nate have finished the task set before them by their hataali and have set their foot on the path to healing. Neither one knows what to expect, however, and Nash does have a few concerns about their future. But those will have to wait as the tribal council has more important things for them to do when they get back to Vegas: deal with a bunch of organ-jackers who have been preying on the young women of several of the local tribes. Then, of course, there's still the problem Nate's been having with the good folks of Raycon Corporation, who really want a look inside his head.

Exodus: Book 3 in the America Overrun series, continues the saga of the Duncan family struggling to survive in a collapsed world. When an old friend warns the group about an imminent invasion to their part of the valley, they prepare to make a mass exodus. This story dives deeper into the characters and their struggles in the apocalypse. For some life goes on and they find love and redemption, while others struggle to keep the beast leashed. Will the Duncan family endure, or will the cracks of humanity’s collapse shatter them for good?

The only constant is change. Master Gunnery Sergeant Albert "Mack" MacLaughlin couldn't agree more. His life changed many times over the years before he watched the Earth change after a devastating attack by an unseen enemy. Left to wander through a post-apocalyptic world, Mack had no problem helping others end their miserable existence.

United: Book 2 in the America Overrun series, continues the saga of the Duncan family struggling to survive in a collapsed world and fighting the evil forces that are surrounding them. After being forced out of their homes, the Duncan family and their group seek refuge in a quarry. They soon find out that they are in the path of a local criminal kingpin and his gangster army.

The highly anticipated follow-up to William R. Forstchen's New York Times best-sellers, One Second After and One Year After, The Final Day immerses listeners once more in the story of our nation's struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror.

This is the eighth and final book in the Colony Ship Trailblazer series.

Tom Smith used to be somebody. Now he's just another refugee, fleeing the smoking ruins of civilization. Tom and some trusted allies were able to stay one step ahead of the infected humans and escaped offshore. Now they're holed up in a safe house in coastal Virginia and it's time to break out. Between him and his objective, one of the bank's prepared evacuation camps in the Cumberland Valley, are hundreds of miles of clogged roads, burnt-out towns, and howling mobs of infected humans who know only hunger.