Under a Graveyard Sky Author: Visit Amazon's John Ringo Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1451639198 | Format: EPUB
Under a Graveyard Sky Description
About the Author
John Ringo brings fighting to life. He is the creator of the Posleen Wars series, which has become a
New York Times best-selling series with
over one million copies in print. The series contains
A Hymn Before Battle,Gust Front,
When the Devil Dances,
Hell’s Faire and
Eye of the Storm. In addition, Ringo has penned the Council War series:
There Will be Dragons,
Emerald Sea,
Against the Tide, and
East of the Sun, West of the Moon. Adding another dimension to his skills, Ringo created nationally best-selling techno-thriller novels about Mike Harmon (
Ghost,
Kildar,
Choosers of the Slain,
Unto the Breach,
A Deeper Blue, and, with Ryan Sear,
Tiger by the Tail). His techno-thriller
The Last Centurion was also a national best seller. A more playful twist on the future is found in novels of the Looking-Glass series:
Into the Looking Glass,
Vorpal Blade,
Manxome Foe and
Claws That Catch, the last three in collaboration with Travis S. Taylor. His audience was further enhanced with four collaborations with fellow
New York Times best-selling author David Weber:
March Upcountry,
March to the Sea,
March to the Stars and
We Few. There are an additional five collaborative spinoffs from the Posleen series:
The Hero, written with Michael Z. Williamson,
Watch on the Rhine,
Yellow Eyes and
The Tuloriad, all written with Tom Kratman, and the
New York Times best seller
Cally’s War and its sequels
Sister Time and
Honor of the Clan, both with Julie Cochrane. In addition, Ringo’s
Princess of Wands and
Queen of Wands broke new ground in contemporary fantasy adventure. A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, Ringo brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction.
- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Baen (September 3, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1451639198
- ISBN-13: 978-1451639193
- Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
The story opens with a bang when a school teacher, Steven Smith, gets a coded message from his brother in New York to warn him of a general emergency. Their plan called for the alert to trigger immediate action: gather his family, "grab the bug-out bag and activate [his] Zombie Plan." It's all fairly dramatic as he walks out of his high school classroom, pulls his daughters out of their schools on the pretext of an auto accident involving his wife, and leaves town with a car and trailer loaded with food, water, supplies, ammo and plenty of firearms. This is a John Ringo novel after all, so the Smith's have plenty of firepower and Steve is a veteran of the Australian paratroopers. His brother is a former Aussie SAS operator.
Most of the story takes place at sea as the Smith's escape the zombie plague. However the danger only increases when they engage in search & rescue operations and Steve Smith forms an ad hoc sea-going militia. I preferred the action in the first half of the book when they travel from Virginia to New York City to rendezvous with the brother, who is head of security for "Bank of Americas." Apparently the bankers don't want to die in a zombie apocalypse or nuclear attack and have prepared accordingly. If true, and I don't have much difficulty in believing it, that militates in favor of emergency preparedness for all of us.
The preparedness message might be diluted by the fact that it really is a zombie story. The victims, infected with the man-made virus (exact origin unknown), eventually have symptoms of "extreme homicidal psychosis with reduced mental capacity.
Under a Graveyard Sky Preview
Link
Please Wait...