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Isolation: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller
Rob didn’t plan to survive alone. The world didn’t give him a choice.
When everything goes wrong, Rob and Gator are cut off from the rest of the group, injured, hunted, and forced to keep moving through hostile territory. With supplies dwindling and no clear path back, survival becomes a matter of endurance rather than strength.
Every mile hurts. Every decision carries risk. Isolation strips away certainty and leaves no room for mistakes, while the dead and the living alike turn the roads into a gauntlet. The longer they’re separated, the harder it becomes to hold on to the belief that they’ll make it back at all.
Because when you’re alone in a broken world, survival isn’t about heroics or sacrifice. It’s about pain tolerance, stubbornness, and refusing to stop even when stopping would be easier.
Dead Isolation is the third brutal chapter in Devon C. Ford’s apocalyptic saga. Featuring loads of grity, realistic action and terrifying enemies that will keep you up at night, this tale of survival is sure to be the next hit in the genre.
When everything goes wrong, Rob and Gator are cut off from the rest of the group, injured, hunted, and forced to keep moving through hostile territory. With supplies dwindling and no clear path back, survival becomes a matter of endurance rather than strength.
Every mile hurts. Every decision carries risk. Isolation strips away certainty and leaves no room for mistakes, while the dead and the living alike turn the roads into a gauntlet. The longer they’re separated, the harder it becomes to hold on to the belief that they’ll make it back at all.
Because when you’re alone in a broken world, survival isn’t about heroics or sacrifice. It’s about pain tolerance, stubbornness, and refusing to stop even when stopping would be easier.
Dead Isolation is the third brutal chapter in Devon C. Ford’s apocalyptic saga. Featuring loads of grity, realistic action and terrifying enemies that will keep you up at night, this tale of survival is sure to be the next hit in the genre.
394 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 24, 2026
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About the author
Devon C. Ford
83 books434 followersDevon is from the UK, having lived in many places until finally settling in the Midlands. His career in public services started in his teens and has provided a wealth of experiences, both good and some very bad, which form the basis of the book ideas that cause regular insomnia.
He first started reading for fun as an adult, having tried his hardest to avoid anything resembling academia growing up, and at that point the world became a far bigger place. He has been reading, at least one book at a time, ever since.
His debut works, the After It Happened series, (Survival, Humanity, Society) were published in April 2016 followed by Hope (July 2016) and Sanctuary (December 2016). The first part of the series concluded with the release of Rebellion which was published in June 2017.
Storming high into the charts with the first books of the After It Happened series, Devon launched into the top 10 sellers listings in the UK, Australia, Canada and the US, and he made the decision to write full time shortly after the launch of Hope.
Devon’s self-published beginnings caused a stir in the publishing world, and resulted in contracts with Podium Publishing for Audible, narrated by R.C. Bray (The Martian, Expeditionary Force, Arisen), before a publishing deal for kindle and paperbacks with Vulpine Press.
Further works have seen the start of a multi-author series, sci-fi/post-apocalyptic cross genre, futuristic dystopian and alternative history zombie apocalypse. Spin-off books from the After It Happened world have been announced for 2018.
He first started reading for fun as an adult, having tried his hardest to avoid anything resembling academia growing up, and at that point the world became a far bigger place. He has been reading, at least one book at a time, ever since.
His debut works, the After It Happened series, (Survival, Humanity, Society) were published in April 2016 followed by Hope (July 2016) and Sanctuary (December 2016). The first part of the series concluded with the release of Rebellion which was published in June 2017.
Storming high into the charts with the first books of the After It Happened series, Devon launched into the top 10 sellers listings in the UK, Australia, Canada and the US, and he made the decision to write full time shortly after the launch of Hope.
Devon’s self-published beginnings caused a stir in the publishing world, and resulted in contracts with Podium Publishing for Audible, narrated by R.C. Bray (The Martian, Expeditionary Force, Arisen), before a publishing deal for kindle and paperbacks with Vulpine Press.
Further works have seen the start of a multi-author series, sci-fi/post-apocalyptic cross genre, futuristic dystopian and alternative history zombie apocalypse. Spin-off books from the After It Happened world have been announced for 2018.
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March 26, 2026
The story is good but the ending is not good. I read a lot and I have to say that the ending of the third book is one of the worst endings.
February 25, 2026
Disappointed book 3
This book ended crazy and really did not give any kind of justice to this series.
I am very disappointed with this book. Get the book and leave your reviews.
This book ended crazy and really did not give any kind of justice to this series.
I am very disappointed with this book. Get the book and leave your reviews.
April 26, 2026
Another very fine book in this series. This book will be particularly sad because of the circumstances that Rob will face on his journey south. As you’ll recall, Rob, Obi and Ruiz got separated from the rest of the operators at Enclave One where the President and military leaders were hold up. Sad to say, both Obi and Ruiz didn’t live through the last attack, but Gator did. Just before he died, Obi told Gator to follow Rob which he is now doing. Obi also told Rob to take care of his dog, Gator. Rob promised the do that with his life.
Meanwhile, Bec, the former CIA analyst that thought she had a secret that needed to get to the President, found out that nobody cared. They already knew that the President and his top military leaders were responsible for the terrible virus that has struck the world and was not turning people into zombies (Zekes). So, she had teamed up with the remaining operators at Enclave One. They knew that the enclave wouldn’t hold what was coming. Apparently, the zombies were gathering in large numbers. When they went through an area, nothing was left alive. If they found humans in their path, they stopped just long enough to eat them or turn those unfortunately humans into zombies. It seems that the zombies are not all heading north for some unknown reason. One of the special operators named Johannsen has gather his forces and they plan to leave Enclave One right now.
They have a train already loaded with supplies and they were heading south. There weren’t that many operators left on the train, but most of those left were very capable at killing zombies. A few, like Bec, the former CIA analyst managed to get on the train and they didn’t have any reason to kick her off. As the train headed south, it had to pass through some towns which were either infested with zombies or other humans who wanted the train for themselves. This was the situation as they passed through Las Animas. Colorado.
There was a surprisingly large number of well armed civilians at Las Animas that saw the train as a way for them to escape the coming hordes of zombies. This required Johannsen and his operators to fight a pretty hairy battle just to keep the train moving. Not everyone made it through this particular ordeal safely. One operator nicknamed “Moose” got shot and was now lying in one of the train cars. Bec took it upon herself to start tying to save his life. There was an operator that had some medical training and he comes along to help Bec, but he says he can only do so much. He patches Moose up and then tells them that he’s probably going to need some blood but Moose’s blood type is B-Neg and that’s pretty rare, except of course, Bec has the same blood type. So Bec does what she can to help keep Moose alive. That will eventually include taking a weapon and killing a few zombies that somehow board the train and just about kill the engineer.
Back to Rob and Gator. They are now on foot heading south as far away from Enclave One as they can get. Rob has a map and he knows of the rendezvous point down south in Texas and that’s where he plans to head. The TacSat radio Obi and now he was carrying was a casualty of the latest battle and besides the others were well out of range by now. Johannsen had tried to contact Obi or Rob via that handset but had also been unable to make the connection. Rob knew that Obi had told Johannsen to take the other operators and head south. He also told him that he, Ruiz and Rob would join them later. That wasn’t going to happen for two of them, but Rob was certainly planning on getting back with Bec if at all possible.
As I said, Rob and Gator are walking. It’s going to take them forever to get down to Texas at that pace all the while they need to hold up at night and only travel during daylight. Gator is real good at spotting or smelling zombies so Rob knows to follow his lead when that time comes. The first thing Rob needs to do is get some supplies. He’s going to need food and water for both himself and Gator. This he finds in small amount along the way. The next thing would be some transportation to move them along south at a better pace.
It takes awhile, but Rob finally stumbles on some kind of transportation, if you want to call it that. Most all the other vehicles he encounters are pretty much picked over. Yet he does find this little tiny car sitting in a dealers showroom and it runs. There’s not much storage space and he’s kind of embarrassed to be driving the thing, but it gets him and Gator on the road heading south a lot quicker.
Then he comes upon a stronghold where a man named Ezra is living with is daughter. This is like an oasis in the desert. Rob can’t believe that such a place exists. He and Gator get to spend some downtime here, get to eat some good food and rest, but not everything is as it appears. Rob and Gator will move on, but it’s a sad day when they have to do so.
I really like these stories. I’m not sure what happened at the end. It seems that Rob and Gator get south to where they were planning on going but they don’t find what they expected. I guess there’s a lot more to come, but book 4 hasn’t been identified on Amazon just yet. I assure you, it will be on my reading list when it becomes available.
==[Note 1 (12/23/2025): I’m no longer associated with Amazon and will no longer provide any links to books from that website. You can usually find books that you like at your usual source.]==
==[Note 2: As of 12/03/2023, this will not be posted on Amazon since I have been banned from posting reviews for some unknown reason. ]==
Meanwhile, Bec, the former CIA analyst that thought she had a secret that needed to get to the President, found out that nobody cared. They already knew that the President and his top military leaders were responsible for the terrible virus that has struck the world and was not turning people into zombies (Zekes). So, she had teamed up with the remaining operators at Enclave One. They knew that the enclave wouldn’t hold what was coming. Apparently, the zombies were gathering in large numbers. When they went through an area, nothing was left alive. If they found humans in their path, they stopped just long enough to eat them or turn those unfortunately humans into zombies. It seems that the zombies are not all heading north for some unknown reason. One of the special operators named Johannsen has gather his forces and they plan to leave Enclave One right now.
They have a train already loaded with supplies and they were heading south. There weren’t that many operators left on the train, but most of those left were very capable at killing zombies. A few, like Bec, the former CIA analyst managed to get on the train and they didn’t have any reason to kick her off. As the train headed south, it had to pass through some towns which were either infested with zombies or other humans who wanted the train for themselves. This was the situation as they passed through Las Animas. Colorado.
There was a surprisingly large number of well armed civilians at Las Animas that saw the train as a way for them to escape the coming hordes of zombies. This required Johannsen and his operators to fight a pretty hairy battle just to keep the train moving. Not everyone made it through this particular ordeal safely. One operator nicknamed “Moose” got shot and was now lying in one of the train cars. Bec took it upon herself to start tying to save his life. There was an operator that had some medical training and he comes along to help Bec, but he says he can only do so much. He patches Moose up and then tells them that he’s probably going to need some blood but Moose’s blood type is B-Neg and that’s pretty rare, except of course, Bec has the same blood type. So Bec does what she can to help keep Moose alive. That will eventually include taking a weapon and killing a few zombies that somehow board the train and just about kill the engineer.
Back to Rob and Gator. They are now on foot heading south as far away from Enclave One as they can get. Rob has a map and he knows of the rendezvous point down south in Texas and that’s where he plans to head. The TacSat radio Obi and now he was carrying was a casualty of the latest battle and besides the others were well out of range by now. Johannsen had tried to contact Obi or Rob via that handset but had also been unable to make the connection. Rob knew that Obi had told Johannsen to take the other operators and head south. He also told him that he, Ruiz and Rob would join them later. That wasn’t going to happen for two of them, but Rob was certainly planning on getting back with Bec if at all possible.
As I said, Rob and Gator are walking. It’s going to take them forever to get down to Texas at that pace all the while they need to hold up at night and only travel during daylight. Gator is real good at spotting or smelling zombies so Rob knows to follow his lead when that time comes. The first thing Rob needs to do is get some supplies. He’s going to need food and water for both himself and Gator. This he finds in small amount along the way. The next thing would be some transportation to move them along south at a better pace.
It takes awhile, but Rob finally stumbles on some kind of transportation, if you want to call it that. Most all the other vehicles he encounters are pretty much picked over. Yet he does find this little tiny car sitting in a dealers showroom and it runs. There’s not much storage space and he’s kind of embarrassed to be driving the thing, but it gets him and Gator on the road heading south a lot quicker.
Then he comes upon a stronghold where a man named Ezra is living with is daughter. This is like an oasis in the desert. Rob can’t believe that such a place exists. He and Gator get to spend some downtime here, get to eat some good food and rest, but not everything is as it appears. Rob and Gator will move on, but it’s a sad day when they have to do so.
I really like these stories. I’m not sure what happened at the end. It seems that Rob and Gator get south to where they were planning on going but they don’t find what they expected. I guess there’s a lot more to come, but book 4 hasn’t been identified on Amazon just yet. I assure you, it will be on my reading list when it becomes available.
==[Note 1 (12/23/2025): I’m no longer associated with Amazon and will no longer provide any links to books from that website. You can usually find books that you like at your usual source.]==
==[Note 2: As of 12/03/2023, this will not be posted on Amazon since I have been banned from posting reviews for some unknown reason. ]==
March 23, 2026
The 3* is for the overall trilogy. And Gator. I’ve read a few of Devon Ford’s post-apocalyptic series. I wouldn’t say this was his best. Readable and entertaining, but littered with so many typo’s and silly errors it must have been proof-read by a five-year-old. Or worse, A.I. Frequent use of the wrong pronouns - ‘she’ when it’s a ‘he’, ‘them’ and ‘they’ (not used in the gender-neutral way) when there is only one person. Use of double, triple and possibly quadruple negatives, so that sentences needed to be read several times. Mixing-up of positive/ negative qualifiers ( did/didn’t, should/shouldn’t etc) completely reversing the meaning of a sentence. And words which frequently and inexplicably were missing the first letter…. ‘’Out of ‘lace’ ‘’ really confused me till I realised the letter ‘p’ was missing. I know a lot of stuff appears on Kindle that is poorly edited and checked, but this is one of the worst I’ve encountered, and I found it very distracting. Come on authors! Don’t allow this! You, and the paying public, deserve better.
So…as I said, the story running through the books is pretty good, typical DCF fare, but then he starts going all Game of Thrones on the main characters. And the ending….nope. Just..nope.
So…as I said, the story running through the books is pretty good, typical DCF fare, but then he starts going all Game of Thrones on the main characters. And the ending….nope. Just..nope.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 3, 2026
The first 2 books in this series were excellent but this third and final one is a huge letdown. The pacing was way off in the entire last 25% that was all about Rob, it just dragged on and on with meaningless details about things I didn’t care about while there was a void in telling of what happened to everyone else. The ending was terrible, not just for the actual plot but because there were so many characters and storylines that needed more telling. Such a major disappointment because the first 2 were so good. I wish the author would re-visit this series and write a more complete and satisfying ending.
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