The Sixth Extinction: The First Three Weeks - Betty and Lennie's Story

by Glen Johnson

The Sixth Extinction Series is an apocalyptic tale about a pandemic that sweeps the globe, decimating the human race, leaving humanity struggling to survive. Within three weeks, everything has changed. Social structure has collapsed. The police are non-existent, and the army concentrates on the cities. Gangs of yobs rule the streets.

The Sixth Extinction continues with a collection of short stories about the main characters from the #1 bestselling four-book series.

The third set of characters in The First Three Weeks Series is Betty and Lennie.

Betty is an eighty-six-year-old woman who spends her days annoying the carers in the nursing home, where she was forced to move when the government deemed her unfit to look after herself and her mentally disabled, giant of a grandson, Lennie. Lennie is placed in a home for adults with special-needs and developmental disabilities. They get to see each other only once a week, when a care worker takes Lennie on the train to visit his grandmother.

Then the world changes. The virus outbreak spreads like wildfire, consuming country after country, until it reaches the shores of Great Britain. The government locks the country down. No one is allowed to wander the streets – everyone is under house arrest, to try to stop the virus from spreading.

However, the care home is forgotten in all the turmoil. The carers stop turning up for work, and the old residents are left to fend for themselves. As the older, sicker occupants start dying, Betty is forced to do things, things which only days before would have seemed impossible.

Unable to reach her grandson, Betty is struggling with her emotions and her body’s limitations. Things go from bad to worse when one night the unimaginable happens, and as people are dying all around her, she has to fight to stay alive.

Genres: Apocalyptic

88 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 30, 2013

About the author

Glen Johnson was born in England in 1973. He used to live in Devon, just a stone's throw away from the English Riviera, but in August 2014 he gave away all his belongings and bought a backpack, and he travelled around Southeast Asia for three years. He settled in Bangkok. He is the author of 54 fiction and non-fiction books. While he travels, he will be helping charitable organizations, writing and releasing books about their foundations, leaving them with all the royalties. His first charity book called Soi Dog: The Story Behind Asia's Largest Animal Welfare Shelter is available in ebook and paperback worldwide. He has also started to release a collection of books about his travel adventures as they unfold, and Living the Dream: Part One - Khaosan Road, Thailand is available from all good ebook retailers. He is also on the development team for a new computer game called The Seed (out now), from the creators of the award-winning S.T.A.L.K.E.R Misery mod. He loves to travel and has already visited forty-two different countries. At present, he lives in Bangkok, Thailand, but he has also lived in Mexico, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, and Singapore. He has also been married twice – and still refuses to say where he buried them.

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Glen Johnson has published 171 books worldwide (via two publishing companies he owns). 54 are his work; the other 117 are modern-classic-fiction books that can be found at www.facebook.com/RedSkullPublishing

Reviews

[Jill Lamond · Rating 1 out of 5]

OMG - why am I still reading this rubbish? (Answer: bought them for my kindle).
1. Try and keep to the same tense in the same paragraph
2. Spell correctly
3. Don't keep saying "due to" - this drives me crazy
4. Learn how to use an apostrophe, it really isn't that difficult.