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Plan B: Revised
When the grid fails, getting home is only the beginning. — Martin is just an average guy, working in Boston when the power grid fails. Phones fail. Roads gridlock. His half-baked Plan B was to walk the fifty miles home to New Hampshire. Plan B must be revised to include an acquaintance, Susan, suddenly homeless due to a house fire. A cautious “city girl” and a faithfully married man make for uneasy traveling companions. Through hardships, criminals, and government confusion, they must learn to rely on each other.
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Since no one knows why the power grid failed, society does not collapse into instant mayhem. Almost everyone assumes “normal” will return soon. Nevertheless, tempers flair and troubles develop. Opportunistic criminals ramp up, and the government tries to "manage" things in obstructive ways.
This is Book One the first of a five-part series. While the ‘getting home’ plot of Book One is not particularly new, it is a realistic look at how two ordinary people try to cope with the social paralysis of a suddenly grid-down world. The remainder of the series looks at how a small community tries to cope with the lack of supplies, the isolation and defending themselves.
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Comments from readers:
"The kind of story you could have a non-prepper read and help them to understand the potential for our so-called civilized society, to become un-civilized in a very short time."
“I love that it's regular people just tying to get home and yes as others have said its VERY realistic.”
"What I liked best was how real the characters were. They did not come across as stereotypes or as perfect people: they simply came across as somebody you might meet on any day of the week."
“Not your typical prepper story…The characters are truly believable.”
“No gung-ho, prepper or military Rambo. I liked the simple average people.”
Author's Notes: Plan B: Revised is deliberately set with realistic people facing challenging times. The characters are not perfect preppers or super-skilled ex-military types with the ideal answer for every occasion. If that's the sort of story you like, you should probably spare yourself the disappointment. Real people in the midst of a predicament have to make quick decisions on limited information. Such choices are seldom perfect, yet somehow, average people manage to survive.
Book 1 is a getting home story but more about two people enduring difficulties and inadvertently sparking deeper feelings. The focus of Book 1 is not so much on firefights amid instant mayhem as it is about people trying to cope. The rest of the books in the series deal with attacks by gangs, murder, privation and betrayal in a grid-down world.
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Since no one knows why the power grid failed, society does not collapse into instant mayhem. Almost everyone assumes “normal” will return soon. Nevertheless, tempers flair and troubles develop. Opportunistic criminals ramp up, and the government tries to "manage" things in obstructive ways.
This is Book One the first of a five-part series. While the ‘getting home’ plot of Book One is not particularly new, it is a realistic look at how two ordinary people try to cope with the social paralysis of a suddenly grid-down world. The remainder of the series looks at how a small community tries to cope with the lack of supplies, the isolation and defending themselves.
—
Comments from readers:
"The kind of story you could have a non-prepper read and help them to understand the potential for our so-called civilized society, to become un-civilized in a very short time."
“I love that it's regular people just tying to get home and yes as others have said its VERY realistic.”
"What I liked best was how real the characters were. They did not come across as stereotypes or as perfect people: they simply came across as somebody you might meet on any day of the week."
“Not your typical prepper story…The characters are truly believable.”
“No gung-ho, prepper or military Rambo. I liked the simple average people.”
Author's Notes: Plan B: Revised is deliberately set with realistic people facing challenging times. The characters are not perfect preppers or super-skilled ex-military types with the ideal answer for every occasion. If that's the sort of story you like, you should probably spare yourself the disappointment. Real people in the midst of a predicament have to make quick decisions on limited information. Such choices are seldom perfect, yet somehow, average people manage to survive.
Book 1 is a getting home story but more about two people enduring difficulties and inadvertently sparking deeper feelings. The focus of Book 1 is not so much on firefights amid instant mayhem as it is about people trying to cope. The rest of the books in the series deal with attacks by gangs, murder, privation and betrayal in a grid-down world.
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Published December 13, 2016
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July 5, 2017
This book was offered to me by the author after I had read One Second After. My major problem with that book was how there were so many ex-military in the same place when things went bad. Seemed way too fake for my liking. Roland said Plan B: Revised was different. It was normal people. Still, I hesitated. I couldn't see where a power grid failure would cause anything but inconvenience. I was assured it was more than just a power outage so I decided to give it a try.
I ended up liking this much more. It was far more realistic than OSA ever dreamed of being. The grid failure was just the beginning. Via social media, people learned the power was out all over. Then the rush to get out of town caused accidents, then gridlock, then road rage. Memories of 9-11 and hurricane Katrina made the protagonist Martin want to get out of town as soon as possible before forced emergency measures were put in place. Tempers flared everywhere with people unable to get home. Fires started with cooking attempts gone wrong. Gridlock prevented emergency vehicles from assisting anyone. It was total chaos.
This is book one of five so you are still left with a multitude of questions and no resolution but it was still good reading. If you liked One Second After, you'll love this.
I ended up liking this much more. It was far more realistic than OSA ever dreamed of being. The grid failure was just the beginning. Via social media, people learned the power was out all over. Then the rush to get out of town caused accidents, then gridlock, then road rage. Memories of 9-11 and hurricane Katrina made the protagonist Martin want to get out of town as soon as possible before forced emergency measures were put in place. Tempers flared everywhere with people unable to get home. Fires started with cooking attempts gone wrong. Gridlock prevented emergency vehicles from assisting anyone. It was total chaos.
This is book one of five so you are still left with a multitude of questions and no resolution but it was still good reading. If you liked One Second After, you'll love this.
June 5, 2017
Life as they knew it was suddenly gone
This is a great story of how fast civilization can crumble. Martin a good husband who worked in the city. Susan worked at the bank Marten did his deposits at. When the power went down he couldn't just leave her in the city after her home burns down. This story exciting from the first page to the last. Three days of one bad thing after the other. They are just trying to get to Martens home. Mix Roland is a great who I will be following form now on.
This is a great story of how fast civilization can crumble. Martin a good husband who worked in the city. Susan worked at the bank Marten did his deposits at. When the power went down he couldn't just leave her in the city after her home burns down. This story exciting from the first page to the last. Three days of one bad thing after the other. They are just trying to get to Martens home. Mix Roland is a great who I will be following form now on.
May 31, 2025
Not a clone of other EMP disaster books.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Unlike too many other books in the genre, society does not immediately collapse. It showcases a slow, and more realistic IHMO, breakdown of law and order. Well worth the read!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Unlike too many other books in the genre, society does not immediately collapse. It showcases a slow, and more realistic IHMO, breakdown of law and order. Well worth the read!
March 19, 2017
Good story to read
Change of pace. No gung-ho, prepper or military Rambo. I liked the change of simple average people. Can't wait to read the next book.
Change of pace. No gung-ho, prepper or military Rambo. I liked the change of simple average people. Can't wait to read the next book.
March 7, 2017
Plan A for me.
How would ordinary people handle a collapse? These are not ordinary peek. Yikes I wanted to scream. You should have introduced the book as "How would bleeding heart liberals handle a collapse in everyday life?"
#1 That girl, Susan, is a liberal nut. Doom people? Guns? Food in the basement classifies them as scary and strange?
#2 Marvin thought of himself as he was already on the margins of civilized society by being a gun owner.
#3 Susan reluctantly took the knife: a physical symbol of the brutality that had so quickly risen around them.
I enjoyed the book because it is so different from my way of thinking I had to see if these two people were going to live. We will see in book 2.
How would ordinary people handle a collapse? These are not ordinary peek. Yikes I wanted to scream. You should have introduced the book as "How would bleeding heart liberals handle a collapse in everyday life?"
#1 That girl, Susan, is a liberal nut. Doom people? Guns? Food in the basement classifies them as scary and strange?
#2 Marvin thought of himself as he was already on the margins of civilized society by being a gun owner.
#3 Susan reluctantly took the knife: a physical symbol of the brutality that had so quickly risen around them.
I enjoyed the book because it is so different from my way of thinking I had to see if these two people were going to live. We will see in book 2.
March 1, 2017
What I liked about this story. I thought the walk home was pretty realistic, and Susans thoughts on eating Squirrel and such would be normal in today's society.
what I didn't like about the story. I didn't like Martin and just from his worrying about how his wife would react to Susan made me dislike her as well. and at the end of the book she reacted just how he thought she would. I won't be reading the next books,
what I didn't like about the story. I didn't like Martin and just from his worrying about how his wife would react to Susan made me dislike her as well. and at the end of the book she reacted just how he thought she would. I won't be reading the next books,
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