The Darkness: A Dystopian Novel Of Survival And Adventure

by Victor Zugg

Sixty days have passed since the thick, black, rainless clouds rolled in, immersing the world in near total darkness and cold. It’s a known phenomenon but never to this scale. Crops everywhere wilted and died from lack of sunlight, resulting in empty store shelves, hungry people, rolling blackouts, tainted tap water, and chaos.

Marauding gangs are just starting up when Leo Ward, a simple accountant, along with his family and a few friends, decide to leave suburbia and wait out the apocalypse in the sparse foothills of north Georgia. In the harsh wilderness, with limited food, resources, and few skills, they make the best of it until an early tragedy turns their dark, upside-down world inside-out. And then they meet their new neighbors. Let’s just say, it doesn’t go well.

Can Leo and his friends rise to the occasion when every decision can mean life or death? It comes down to a simple do or die.

327 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 23, 2022

About the author

Victor Zugg is a former US Air Force officer and OSI special agent who served and lived all over the world. Writing has always been a big part of his life, no matter what the job. While serving in the military most of his writing was job related. But he also found time to publish a number of nonfiction magazine articles, all historical in nature. He traveled great distances to research the material first hand. More recently he’s turned his writing skills to fiction, to the type he enjoys reading—largely dystopian and survival adventures. Given his extensive travels and opportunities to settle anywhere, it is ironic that he now resides in Florida, only a few miles from his hometown of Orlando. He credits the warm temperatures for that decision.

Reviews

[S.A. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful

I always enjoy victor sung books. This book was good. Fast pace ant good characters and plot. I highly recommend.
His time travel books are great as well.