When an EMP takes out the national power grid, the country is thrown into chaos.
The gates of a prison open and the people are freed. It’s the middle of the night. There is no electricity. Cell phones are dead. Cars don’t start. The lights won’t turn on.
Sheriff Leland West knows what this could mean. Stranded a few miles from town, he must now travel on foot with Henry, a fugitive in handcuffs, because it’s not a matter of if the prisoners will take over the town, but when. The people need his help, but Leland isn’t worried about them. His daughter is his number one priority.
But to save her, he'll have to get involved, and time is running out.
As sheriff, Leland has put away a few of these prisoners. Revenge could be in their minds. One prisoner in particular will be looking for him.
A shadow from his past that aims to make him pay for all his sins.
Jason D. Morrow is the author of the Prototype D series, The Starborn Ascension, The Starborn Uprising, and The Marenon Chronicles. He enjoys playing guitar, shooting videos, and spending time with his lovely wife, Emily.
This ended up being one of the EMP-disaster books where the EMP is just a mechanism to set up an interpersonal conflict. In this case, it was the mechanism to allow a prison full of bad guys to get out and a mechanism to cause confusion in the town. Inmates vs town people is not a new scenario and this plays out pretty much like you would expect. While the writing was generally decent as was the editing, the characters are very one-dimensional. Everyone is conflicted about their past and their secrets. The most interesting character is Henry Tash, but he is not quite interesting enough for me to continue.
The story is ok, but the writer just continued to drone on and on and the story never really developed as well as it should have. I dumped it halfway through.
It’s a bit of a slow burn in the first chapter or so, but didn’t take long to heat up after that. Well worth a read. Looking forward to the next book in the series.