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Shattered: The Complete Collection
The complete Boxset collection of John Irvin's five-volume Shattered series. It's also for the first time in print! A political apocalyptic drama about the end of the United States—perhaps a slight bit realistic?
Volume 1, Collapse.
When the Black Out happens, a nuclear facility in the northeast sends Washington, D.C. to kingdom come. The northeastern seaboard becomes what is called the Badlands.
Meanwhile, in Alabama, a neighbourhood turns itself into a fortified community to protect against the scavengers and anarchist mobs taking advantage of the loss of government leadership.
From this establishment, the Locke Republic is born.
Volume 2, Revolt.
Atlanta is overrun by gangs and mob wars. Stephen Hardy and his wife, Sara, are fleeing the city to join the Locke Republic. But, along the way, they are invited to join a resistance camp.
While there, friends are murdered, Stephen makes a vow to rid his beloved city of the needless sacrifice of innocent blood.
In the Texas Republic, the State is limping along. Governor Mark Bennington wages a political war. This debate turns into a battle of resistance against the invading Mexican forces at the south. General Philip Bundy leads the revolt, he must take San Antonio in a near mirror of history.
Volume 3, Anarchy.
Derick Banks and Ted Valington are two of the last survivors of the United States government. Valington takes over as acting President while staying in Olympia, Washington. He converts the region into the Washington Empire and invades the struggling British Columbian north.
The State of Jefferson has finally found her independence ever since she’d began her mission before World War II. But now she’s being attacked by her northern enemy, the Washington Empire.
Derick Banks converts his Midwestern region into the American Union, making St. Louis his Central City. Through a tight fits and fiery bullets, he rules like a dictator, stamping out all he portrays as terrorists and rebels to the Cause of restoring the United States.
Volume 4, Spark.
Fourteen years later, someone attacks Liberty City, the Capital of the Locke Republic, and kidnaps the President, Joe Randall.
Samuel Turnover is called into duty once again for his country.
The Southern Federation and the Republic of Texas all cast in the lots with their neighbour and the North American War breaks out across the entire continent.
A mission to rescue the President of the Locke Republic is instigated.
Will it be accomplished? Will the War continue? Will the young nations survive?
Volume 5, Conspiracy.
The final chapter of the series brings the North American War to a head four years later. Everyone is at a stalemate. Every side resorts to drastic measures.
A bomber makes a failed attempt in Atlanta.
Former Presidents Sam Turnover, Emily Morgan, and Joe Randall link up with General Stephen Hardy, representatives and ambassadors from four new secessionist nations within the realm of the American Union’s dictatorship, and others embark on a mission to bring the War to an end.
Volume 1, Collapse.
When the Black Out happens, a nuclear facility in the northeast sends Washington, D.C. to kingdom come. The northeastern seaboard becomes what is called the Badlands.
Meanwhile, in Alabama, a neighbourhood turns itself into a fortified community to protect against the scavengers and anarchist mobs taking advantage of the loss of government leadership.
From this establishment, the Locke Republic is born.
Volume 2, Revolt.
Atlanta is overrun by gangs and mob wars. Stephen Hardy and his wife, Sara, are fleeing the city to join the Locke Republic. But, along the way, they are invited to join a resistance camp.
While there, friends are murdered, Stephen makes a vow to rid his beloved city of the needless sacrifice of innocent blood.
In the Texas Republic, the State is limping along. Governor Mark Bennington wages a political war. This debate turns into a battle of resistance against the invading Mexican forces at the south. General Philip Bundy leads the revolt, he must take San Antonio in a near mirror of history.
Volume 3, Anarchy.
Derick Banks and Ted Valington are two of the last survivors of the United States government. Valington takes over as acting President while staying in Olympia, Washington. He converts the region into the Washington Empire and invades the struggling British Columbian north.
The State of Jefferson has finally found her independence ever since she’d began her mission before World War II. But now she’s being attacked by her northern enemy, the Washington Empire.
Derick Banks converts his Midwestern region into the American Union, making St. Louis his Central City. Through a tight fits and fiery bullets, he rules like a dictator, stamping out all he portrays as terrorists and rebels to the Cause of restoring the United States.
Volume 4, Spark.
Fourteen years later, someone attacks Liberty City, the Capital of the Locke Republic, and kidnaps the President, Joe Randall.
Samuel Turnover is called into duty once again for his country.
The Southern Federation and the Republic of Texas all cast in the lots with their neighbour and the North American War breaks out across the entire continent.
A mission to rescue the President of the Locke Republic is instigated.
Will it be accomplished? Will the War continue? Will the young nations survive?
Volume 5, Conspiracy.
The final chapter of the series brings the North American War to a head four years later. Everyone is at a stalemate. Every side resorts to drastic measures.
A bomber makes a failed attempt in Atlanta.
Former Presidents Sam Turnover, Emily Morgan, and Joe Randall link up with General Stephen Hardy, representatives and ambassadors from four new secessionist nations within the realm of the American Union’s dictatorship, and others embark on a mission to bring the War to an end.
310 pages, Paperback
Published October 14, 2019
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About the author
John Irvin
34 books11 followersBorn in Oklahoma, raised in Eastern Europe, John Irvin now lives in Florida. He enjoys writing speculative fiction--fantasy, sci-fi, paranormal. In his life, he has visited at least 20 various countries of the world and considers this a blessing as it has helped shape his worldview. He enjoys spending time with friends and family, enjoying nature, and reading every book in his growing personal library.
"One of my lifetime goals," John declares. "Is to build a personal library of at least 4,000 volumes."
Having gained his Bachelor's Degree in Humanities, John went on to work in several different fields before he realized, it was writing that did it for him. He's been writing since 2004. Writing at least 10 books during high school, he never dreamed he'd be pursuing a full-time career as an author.
"I'd always imagined I'd be too busy for writing once college came along and life afterward," John remarks. "But back in 2016, a friend asked what I wanted to be doing in five years. Did I want to slave away at some dead-end job?" He always smiles with his response, "I decided, No. I wanted to be a writer."
Recently, John picked up his pen for Amazon Kindle and is pumping more ebooks as the months pass by.
If you would like to contact or follow on social media, he can be found on Twitter (@irvinnovelist76) and the same on Facebook.
"One of my lifetime goals," John declares. "Is to build a personal library of at least 4,000 volumes."
Having gained his Bachelor's Degree in Humanities, John went on to work in several different fields before he realized, it was writing that did it for him. He's been writing since 2004. Writing at least 10 books during high school, he never dreamed he'd be pursuing a full-time career as an author.
"I'd always imagined I'd be too busy for writing once college came along and life afterward," John remarks. "But back in 2016, a friend asked what I wanted to be doing in five years. Did I want to slave away at some dead-end job?" He always smiles with his response, "I decided, No. I wanted to be a writer."
Recently, John picked up his pen for Amazon Kindle and is pumping more ebooks as the months pass by.
If you would like to contact or follow on social media, he can be found on Twitter (@irvinnovelist76) and the same on Facebook.
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June 23, 2022
Overall fun reading. A series of five books in one. This story follows several protagonists and has a hint of a “Walking Dead” theme, but without the walking dead. A world wide catastrophic event leads to the breaking up of the United States. Each book does well in building up to the last book and the final climax.
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