The first three novels and a bonus short story of The End Time Saga in one box set. Over 1100 pages of thrilling post-apocalyptic viral outbreak fiction!
In the dark primal jungles of the Congo River Basin, a deadly microbe is mutating at breakneck speed. Before the world can react, a deadly viral outbreak is ravaging the local populations. A team of counterterrorism agents is sent to retrieve a doctor in the collapsing nation…but this is just the knock on the door for the end of the world.
Over the course of a few months, along with the rest of the world, America collapses piece by piece turning the nation into a grim wasteland where the chances for survival are slim. Watch your six with counterterrorism agents as they try to keep a doctor and each other alive. Join a team of CDC doctors as they race to find a cure and the virus picks them off one by one. Scramble with a retired Air Force colonel thrust into the command of a Special Forces team trying to prop up a dying government. Flee before a delusional pastor and his followers as they burn their way across the land. Rebel with a rural town about to become the epicenter of a resistance movement and the return of a farmer’s daughter, propelled into a position to lead them.
Who will rise? Who will fall? The only certainty is the dead will rule over all. Enter: The End Time Saga.
Daniel is the award-winning author of The End Time Saga and the historical fiction Northern Wolf Series. Whether it’s a saber charge in the American Civil War or a gun battle between two rival bands surviving a hellish landscape, he is known for his ability to embed every page with fast-paced action, thrilling suspense, and gritty realism.
He is an avid traveler and physical fitness enthusiast with a deep passion for history. The works of George R.R. Martin, Steven Pressfield, Bernard Cornwell, Robert Jordan, and George Romero, have inspired his work. Although he is a Midwesterner for life, he's lived in Virginia long enough to consider it home.
He is a proud member of the Horror Writers Association, the Historical Novel Society, and the Military Writers Society of America.
I really enjoyed this story. The characters were interesting and realistic. Some good, some bad, the brave, and the cowardly. All trying to survive the end of the world. The story was well thought out and had plenty of action and excitement.
The heart of this story is enough that I kept coming back through all 5 books. The character development was good and the plot really moves along nicely. The narrator does a very good job of giving each character a different voice, although most of the ethnic characters sound like stereotypes.
Unfortunately, there were a couple of things that this author did that drove me crazy. The first is the continual naming of each and every firearm. It was never just “his gun”, but “his M4 carbine” or “his Smith & Wesson 686”. It was as if Greene had sponsorship deals with gun companies that paid him for each time he named a firearm.
That leads me to my second critique: the heavy-handed usage of similes and metaphors. Barely a single paragraph went by without something being ridiculously compared to something else. “She caught the child like the most fragile punt return”, “his steps were slow, as if he was a boot-clad dancer”, “his mind played it on repeat like a scratched CD”.
While these things were distracting and, sometimes, downright laughable, I did continue to listen and finished the series to date. I assume there will be more books to come as the 5th book ended with no resolution; I will more than likely read/listen to that one as well since I want to know how these characters fare.