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The Sixth Extinction: The First Three Weeks - Doctor Lazaro's Story
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 fourth character in The First Three Weeks Series is Doctor Melanie Lazaro.
Melanie was a child prodigy, miles ahead in her classes. At the age of thirteen, she was one of only four people ever to be accepted into Cambridge University at such a young age. At twenty-three, she is now a renowned scientist in Exeter University's Microbes and Disease Department. Her work has been published in science journals all over the world.
However, life isn't perfect; she's had her problems, and her parents are a little distant and eccentric – her mother cares more about her plants, and her father locks himself away in the basement, and due to bad choices, she still lives at home with them.
Then everything changes. A virus starts to ravish the world, country by country, and as it gets closer to Great Britain the government sends in the army to take over the university's facilities, using everything at their disposable to try to create a vaccine.
Doctor Lazaro has no choice; she is drafted in to run the scientific side of the university while the army barricades it off from the rest of the city.
As she works around the clock, unable to leave, she wonders what the General in charge is keeping from her? Why isn't she allowed to contact to her parents? Why is there a battalion of soldiers walking the perimeters? And why is there screaming coming from the out-of-bounds university's large gym?
She has only a short time to work miracles, because as soon as the virus reaches the shores of England, it will already be too late.
The Sixth Extinction continues with a collection of short stories about the main characters from the #1 bestselling four-book series.
The fourth character in The First Three Weeks Series is Doctor Melanie Lazaro.
Melanie was a child prodigy, miles ahead in her classes. At the age of thirteen, she was one of only four people ever to be accepted into Cambridge University at such a young age. At twenty-three, she is now a renowned scientist in Exeter University's Microbes and Disease Department. Her work has been published in science journals all over the world.
However, life isn't perfect; she's had her problems, and her parents are a little distant and eccentric – her mother cares more about her plants, and her father locks himself away in the basement, and due to bad choices, she still lives at home with them.
Then everything changes. A virus starts to ravish the world, country by country, and as it gets closer to Great Britain the government sends in the army to take over the university's facilities, using everything at their disposable to try to create a vaccine.
Doctor Lazaro has no choice; she is drafted in to run the scientific side of the university while the army barricades it off from the rest of the city.
As she works around the clock, unable to leave, she wonders what the General in charge is keeping from her? Why isn't she allowed to contact to her parents? Why is there a battalion of soldiers walking the perimeters? And why is there screaming coming from the out-of-bounds university's large gym?
She has only a short time to work miracles, because as soon as the virus reaches the shores of England, it will already be too late.
- GenresApocalyptic
86 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 30, 2013
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About the author
Glen Johnson
150 books33 followersGlen 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
Why not add Glen Johnson as a friend on Facebook. From his author's page, you can keep up to date with all his new releases, and when his kindle books are free on Amazon. He checks it daily, so pop on and say hello! Don't be shy he's a friendly chap. www.facebook.com/GlenJohnsonAuthor
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
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March 28, 2016
So after reading a number of the books in this series I've figured out what has been bugging me so much. Every single character that speaks, at no point uses a contraction in their speech. It's why all the books read so oddly. I mean most people use contractions in their speech.
This leads me to believe that the author doesn't, and as a result has no ability to write speech that comes across as free flowing. It's a huge flaw in these books. All the characters sound like robots. Not good!
This leads me to believe that the author doesn't, and as a result has no ability to write speech that comes across as free flowing. It's a huge flaw in these books. All the characters sound like robots. Not good!
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