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DARK STATE: The terrorists know...The government knows...Now - YOU will know.
What do a paranoid prepper, a single mom, a self-absorbed Hollywood celebrity, a homeless vet, and the new head of CAL-OES have in common? They are five people out of the forty million trying to survive the largest terrorist incident in US history.
After a coordinated brute-force attack brings California’s electrical grid to its knees, it does more than just turn off the lights; cell towers go dead, fuel cannot be pumped, supply chains grind to a halt, and municipal water systems fail. In a matter of days, the country’s most populous state and fifth largest economy in the world, collapses.
When the smoke clears, the residents of the once ‘Golden State,’ are catapulted straight back into the Stone Age, leaving everyone to survive any way they can.
After a coordinated brute-force attack brings California’s electrical grid to its knees, it does more than just turn off the lights; cell towers go dead, fuel cannot be pumped, supply chains grind to a halt, and municipal water systems fail. In a matter of days, the country’s most populous state and fifth largest economy in the world, collapses.
When the smoke clears, the residents of the once ‘Golden State,’ are catapulted straight back into the Stone Age, leaving everyone to survive any way they can.
497 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 29, 2022
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About the author
Christopher J. Lynch
14 books27 followersChristopher Lynch is a Southern California native and a freelance writer living in Los Angeles. His debut novel, One Eyed Jack, a hard-boiled crime thriller about a professional blackmailer, is a 2013 Shamus Award finalist.
He is also an avid cyclist and a mountain climber with successful summits of Mount Whitney, Mount Shasta, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mount Kalapatar in Nepal, and has recently completed a trek to Mount Everest Base Camp.
He counts as one of his greatest accomplishments the successful training and leading of nine blind hikers to the summit of 10,000 foot Mount Baldy, the highest point in Los Angeles County and the third highest peak in Southern California. A documentary film is being made of the adventure and you can view a trailer at: http://www.baldyfortheblind.com
He’s a member of Sisters in Crime Los Angeles chapter, as well as Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. You can see more of Christopher J. Lynch’s writing at his website: http://www.christopherjlynch.com/
He is also an avid cyclist and a mountain climber with successful summits of Mount Whitney, Mount Shasta, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mount Kalapatar in Nepal, and has recently completed a trek to Mount Everest Base Camp.
He counts as one of his greatest accomplishments the successful training and leading of nine blind hikers to the summit of 10,000 foot Mount Baldy, the highest point in Los Angeles County and the third highest peak in Southern California. A documentary film is being made of the adventure and you can view a trailer at: http://www.baldyfortheblind.com
He’s a member of Sisters in Crime Los Angeles chapter, as well as Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. You can see more of Christopher J. Lynch’s writing at his website: http://www.christopherjlynch.com/
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September 13, 2022
frightening to think about
In the beginning of the book, I had to put it down and come back to it latter, it wasn’t until I really got into the characters that I couldn’t put it down because I really wanted to see what happened to them or how they handled a particular situation. I would like to believe we wouldn’t loose our humanity as quickly as the characters did, but looking at the world we now live in, I believe Chris very accurately described what would happen under the circumstances portrayed. Very descriptive and well written but extremely frightening to think about.
In the beginning of the book, I had to put it down and come back to it latter, it wasn’t until I really got into the characters that I couldn’t put it down because I really wanted to see what happened to them or how they handled a particular situation. I would like to believe we wouldn’t loose our humanity as quickly as the characters did, but looking at the world we now live in, I believe Chris very accurately described what would happen under the circumstances portrayed. Very descriptive and well written but extremely frightening to think about.
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