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Ray Houston thought he was in for another quiet graveyard shift at a top-secret government testing facility in the northwestern desert of Utah, but boy was he dead wrong.
After a mysterious cult and their ex-military war dogs release a designer virus they call "The Red Holy Death". Ray Houston and his ragtag band of security guards race to warn the US government, in an almost futile attempt to stop the spread of the zombie-like infection from sweeping across the nation.
After a mysterious cult and their ex-military war dogs release a designer virus they call "The Red Holy Death". Ray Houston and his ragtag band of security guards race to warn the US government, in an almost futile attempt to stop the spread of the zombie-like infection from sweeping across the nation.
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Published August 7, 2024
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March 29, 2025
A weird U.S. vs Satanic zombie soldiers story. This ebook need another edit.
August 22, 2025
Cool
Great read a great read a great read. A very interesting story line. Zombies all the
Way. A great story.
Great read a great read a great read. A very interesting story line. Zombies all the
Way. A great story.
May 21, 2025
I gave this book 3 starrs which is pretty generous. The story was OK, though it had an abrupt twist ending. i listed to a large portion of it on audible and it was not a good reading. The author may have based characters working previously at a classified site, but he knows little of how a military security force would act.
1) Special Ops teams would automatically follow protocol they would not react to injured/wounded people the way Ray, et al did.
2)The proper way to refer to an APC or the M-113 is to call it a PC or a 113 NEVER AN M-113. Additionally the term track is often used.
3) A 113 only has ONE DRIVER who sits next to the engine. it has a TC and the TC station is DESIGNED for a M-2 .50 mg. The weapon would be called a 50/fifty.
4) An M-60 would be called a 60 NEVER an m-60
5) The PC can fit besides its two man crew, 11 infantrymen comfortably---well reasonably, but you can fit as many as 18 in there.
6) At special sites, they still have modified PC's called ACAVS from the vietnam era which contain in addition to the main weapon, two m-60mgs with shield mounts. This would most likely be what woul dbe used
7) You have the men removing weapons and ammo from the pC. NO NO NO NO NO, soldiers would be throwing weapons and ammon inside. The more you have the better. YOU NEVER REMOVE because you CAN NEVER HAVE enough.
As an example, when I was assigned to a 48A5 in Korea back in the 80's, well we had the mandatory 63 main gun rounds, but as the TC I was only suppsed to have a .45 and grease gun. We had 3 extra machine guns---m-60's with 25,000 extra rounds, I carried an M-16 with 1000 rds, had 5000 rds of .45 ball for the crew, carried a .38 snubnose with 48 rounds, a .22 semi with 7 clips, and had an extra 1000 rds of ammo stored for my grease gun. In addition I had two boot knives, one for each book, my combat knife, bayonet, and two machettes. Not to mention we had about 40 grenates in the tank as well. There were 3 other crew members all also armed to the teeth as me. I was a platoon leader at the time and the one 113 in the company for the HQ section was litterally am ammo bunker sprouting not only its .50, but two additional m-60's in shield mounts ( unauthorized) a mortar, a rear mounted .50 on a swing mount and was loaded with ammo that you could barely move in it. That's because in Korea we were expecting human wave attacks. On the outside were placed Claymore mines.
8) Lee fires an AT rocket from a Bell helicopter......given the fact that its a civillian aircraft there are some issues with doing so. First and foremost, its almost impossible to hit a moving target holding an AT from a moving aircraft, but it even if it were, its phyically not feasible becuase of the backblas t the rocket would create which would damage the main or tail rotors. There is a proper way to fire the weapon and that wouldl be to bring the aircraft down to ground leve, holding the AT parallel too the ground, outside of the aircraft door, but this would make it vulnerable. Attack choppers that use rockets have devices that deflect and diffuse the backblast downward.
when the fort attached, the author talks about the use of apache attack helicopters and jet aircraft making raids. The fact is that in such an attach, the apaches would attack command and control veehicles---the enemy humvees, which they could engage from up to 6-9k away. Additionally, Fuel Air munitions would have been used in repeling the attack. So even if the zombies were spread along say a 10 mile front, their tightly packed numbers would have been significantly reduced via the use of the Big Blu's ( BLU-47s) or other bariatric devices.
Finally there is no mention of the use of artillery---DPICM and ICM still exists in our inventory and would have devestating effects .
So tactical employment would have been to create a line of infantry using small arms and heavy weapons to includ .50 mgs, M-163 Vulcan air defense ( mini guns), M-42 dusters which the Coloradoo NG and USAR still have until recently---in a static line. Heavy armor and M-2 bradleys, would be loaded with full base loads--the bradleys especially and their 20mm chain guns would have significant impact. Upon initially spotting them , hunter killer groups of 2-3 apaches with an Loach ( Kiowa) would go after the enemy Humvees, engaging with anti-tank missles at 5-7kmn to disrupt communications. USAF aircraft would be used to interdict deep echelon forces massed using fuel air munitions, cluster munitions, napalm, while other craft would seek and engage staging areas and command/control areas.
As remaining enemies approach the front lines, any command and control vehicles would be engaged by ITV's and long range artillery firing HE, WP, and DPICM. Artillery would also fire WP/DPICM/ICM to break up concentrations of zombies. smaller artiller might also be situation along the main line of battle with ICM/DPICM to act in the same way canister was used during the Civil war as front line troops enage those zombies that get through.
We haven't even gotten into the use of engineers to construct obstacles to slow attackers as well as the use of minefields, scatterable anti-vehicle and anti-personnel mines .
The truth is that some would get thru, but not many because of the concentration of fire and layers of defense
A good book though for those of you who aren't schooled in the military arts. And I mean that. I thoguht it was well written and had a great premised and was pretty consistent in its delivery in writing. I also enjoyed the author's style of writing, his use of basic and complex grammar shows a high degree of writing ability and I loved how he switched back and forth in this manner.
1) Special Ops teams would automatically follow protocol they would not react to injured/wounded people the way Ray, et al did.
2)The proper way to refer to an APC or the M-113 is to call it a PC or a 113 NEVER AN M-113. Additionally the term track is often used.
3) A 113 only has ONE DRIVER who sits next to the engine. it has a TC and the TC station is DESIGNED for a M-2 .50 mg. The weapon would be called a 50/fifty.
4) An M-60 would be called a 60 NEVER an m-60
5) The PC can fit besides its two man crew, 11 infantrymen comfortably---well reasonably, but you can fit as many as 18 in there.
6) At special sites, they still have modified PC's called ACAVS from the vietnam era which contain in addition to the main weapon, two m-60mgs with shield mounts. This would most likely be what woul dbe used
7) You have the men removing weapons and ammo from the pC. NO NO NO NO NO, soldiers would be throwing weapons and ammon inside. The more you have the better. YOU NEVER REMOVE because you CAN NEVER HAVE enough.
As an example, when I was assigned to a 48A5 in Korea back in the 80's, well we had the mandatory 63 main gun rounds, but as the TC I was only suppsed to have a .45 and grease gun. We had 3 extra machine guns---m-60's with 25,000 extra rounds, I carried an M-16 with 1000 rds, had 5000 rds of .45 ball for the crew, carried a .38 snubnose with 48 rounds, a .22 semi with 7 clips, and had an extra 1000 rds of ammo stored for my grease gun. In addition I had two boot knives, one for each book, my combat knife, bayonet, and two machettes. Not to mention we had about 40 grenates in the tank as well. There were 3 other crew members all also armed to the teeth as me. I was a platoon leader at the time and the one 113 in the company for the HQ section was litterally am ammo bunker sprouting not only its .50, but two additional m-60's in shield mounts ( unauthorized) a mortar, a rear mounted .50 on a swing mount and was loaded with ammo that you could barely move in it. That's because in Korea we were expecting human wave attacks. On the outside were placed Claymore mines.
8) Lee fires an AT rocket from a Bell helicopter......given the fact that its a civillian aircraft there are some issues with doing so. First and foremost, its almost impossible to hit a moving target holding an AT from a moving aircraft, but it even if it were, its phyically not feasible becuase of the backblas t the rocket would create which would damage the main or tail rotors. There is a proper way to fire the weapon and that wouldl be to bring the aircraft down to ground leve, holding the AT parallel too the ground, outside of the aircraft door, but this would make it vulnerable. Attack choppers that use rockets have devices that deflect and diffuse the backblast downward.
when the fort attached, the author talks about the use of apache attack helicopters and jet aircraft making raids. The fact is that in such an attach, the apaches would attack command and control veehicles---the enemy humvees, which they could engage from up to 6-9k away. Additionally, Fuel Air munitions would have been used in repeling the attack. So even if the zombies were spread along say a 10 mile front, their tightly packed numbers would have been significantly reduced via the use of the Big Blu's ( BLU-47s) or other bariatric devices.
Finally there is no mention of the use of artillery---DPICM and ICM still exists in our inventory and would have devestating effects .
So tactical employment would have been to create a line of infantry using small arms and heavy weapons to includ .50 mgs, M-163 Vulcan air defense ( mini guns), M-42 dusters which the Coloradoo NG and USAR still have until recently---in a static line. Heavy armor and M-2 bradleys, would be loaded with full base loads--the bradleys especially and their 20mm chain guns would have significant impact. Upon initially spotting them , hunter killer groups of 2-3 apaches with an Loach ( Kiowa) would go after the enemy Humvees, engaging with anti-tank missles at 5-7kmn to disrupt communications. USAF aircraft would be used to interdict deep echelon forces massed using fuel air munitions, cluster munitions, napalm, while other craft would seek and engage staging areas and command/control areas.
As remaining enemies approach the front lines, any command and control vehicles would be engaged by ITV's and long range artillery firing HE, WP, and DPICM. Artillery would also fire WP/DPICM/ICM to break up concentrations of zombies. smaller artiller might also be situation along the main line of battle with ICM/DPICM to act in the same way canister was used during the Civil war as front line troops enage those zombies that get through.
We haven't even gotten into the use of engineers to construct obstacles to slow attackers as well as the use of minefields, scatterable anti-vehicle and anti-personnel mines .
The truth is that some would get thru, but not many because of the concentration of fire and layers of defense
A good book though for those of you who aren't schooled in the military arts. And I mean that. I thoguht it was well written and had a great premised and was pretty consistent in its delivery in writing. I also enjoyed the author's style of writing, his use of basic and complex grammar shows a high degree of writing ability and I loved how he switched back and forth in this manner.
August 16, 2025
you were so close to perfect
Your book was phenomenal up until the battle for Denver you had all the chance for the good guys to win with being alive but instead went for a time skip. None the less the book was good but it would have been perfect if they hadn’t died at Denver and instead the US had crushed the cult
Your book was phenomenal up until the battle for Denver you had all the chance for the good guys to win with being alive but instead went for a time skip. None the less the book was good but it would have been perfect if they hadn’t died at Denver and instead the US had crushed the cult
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April 6, 2025
A great horror thriller
This book was a very well written tale. I enjoy all types of genre and this was enjoyable to read.
This book was a very well written tale. I enjoy all types of genre and this was enjoyable to read.
June 8, 2025
Good Fun
Took a chance and have to say I’m glad I did. Lots of action. Full of characters you get attached to. Definitely worth reading and look forward to more work by the author.
Took a chance and have to say I’m glad I did. Lots of action. Full of characters you get attached to. Definitely worth reading and look forward to more work by the author.
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