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Looking Back Through Ash
In a world darkened by volcanic ash, America watched in horror as a coordinated terrorist attack destroyed three of its nuclear generating facilities. One of those plants was the Enrico Fermi power station, which operated on the busy waterfront south of Detroit, Michigan. This stand-alone novel follows several converging storylines that center on Daniel Moore and covers a decade of his tragic life. Trapped between worlds, Daniel and his young family are left to deal with the aftermath of his late father’s brutality and the corrupt leadership of the near-by boomtown.
Used as a staging area to support the nuclear clean-up efforts taking place to the south, the Council members of the reorganized city of New Warren, who were being provided with fuel and supplies by the remnants of the Federal Government, controlled the immediate area with an iron fist. When the years of steady growth suddenly come to an end, and the gravy train pulls out for a second time, a fate that many thought had been avoided reveals that it had only been postponed.
Revised Edition 8/15
Edited By: Jett Cat
125k+ words
Used as a staging area to support the nuclear clean-up efforts taking place to the south, the Council members of the reorganized city of New Warren, who were being provided with fuel and supplies by the remnants of the Federal Government, controlled the immediate area with an iron fist. When the years of steady growth suddenly come to an end, and the gravy train pulls out for a second time, a fate that many thought had been avoided reveals that it had only been postponed.
Revised Edition 8/15
Edited By: Jett Cat
125k+ words
384 pages, Paperback
First published June 29, 2015
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October 23, 2015
Good story. Slow start, but gains a reasonable amount of momentum as it goes along and really gripped me near the end.
The only drawback was that I suspect it wasn't professionally edited: lots of spelling errors, word errors ("do" instead of "so", things like that) and even a couple of character references to characters who were deceased as if they were there (maybe a plot change and the name update wasn't at 100%?)
Overall, like I mentioned, I liked the story; I think it took me about a day to read the last 2/3 of the book because I became pretty caught up in what was going on.
And the very end sucked. Not sure if it was supposed to be a lead in to another story or what, but when I got to the end, I thought my Kindle app must have skipped a page because it was like... what the hell just happened???
The only drawback was that I suspect it wasn't professionally edited: lots of spelling errors, word errors ("do" instead of "so", things like that) and even a couple of character references to characters who were deceased as if they were there (maybe a plot change and the name update wasn't at 100%?)
Overall, like I mentioned, I liked the story; I think it took me about a day to read the last 2/3 of the book because I became pretty caught up in what was going on.
And the very end sucked. Not sure if it was supposed to be a lead in to another story or what, but when I got to the end, I thought my Kindle app must have skipped a page because it was like... what the hell just happened???
June 24, 2018
Interesting take on a man trying to survive during the destruction of the world's around him. Ebeling tells a take well, he draws you into the characters lives quickly and you want to know more. like when do we get to know the rest of the story...
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