Brutal Reset

A Post Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Blackout War Series, Book 1)

A catastrophic EMP.

An impossible choice.

When saving humanity requires destroying the world that made it.

When a secret government cabal attacks the president’s AI system designed to control Americans through brain-embedded implants, they think they’re stopping a dictatorship and saving humanity. Instead, they ignite something far worse. The strike fails. The implantation program surges forward. And the man behind it now possesses direct influence over human thought itself. With time running out, the cabal faces an impossible choice.

Destroy civilization to save it...

or watch humanity lose its freedom forever.

Across the American Midwest, the lights go out.

Recovering addict and former Green Beret Jake Mitchener assumes it’s just another blackout until the world around him collapses into darkness and silence. With no power, no communication, and no warning, Jake is forced into a fight for survival he never expected to face again.

Hundreds of miles away in a secure operations center, Jake’s brother Blayne, once CIA, now a reluctant conspirator, discovers the terrible truth: their failed strike has only made their enemy stronger. President Burchett’s AI empire is rebuilding faster than anyone believed possible, and his neural implants are on track to overwrite the last remnants of human autonomy.

Operation Red Eagle, a nationwide EMP, is the only option left. But if they deploy it, millions will die. If they don’t, artificial intelligence will seize control of the human mind itself.

Blackout War is a fast-paced post-apocalyptic EMP survival thriller series where political betrayal, collapsing infrastructure, and rising technological tyranny collide—leaving humanity to fight not just for survival, but for the right to remain human.

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Very Timely Book

Great book and great insight to what may be coming. Great depth of characters and great story lines.

Vey good story!

A great story with an interesting twist to an emp post apocalyptic book. I listen to a lot of them. Author needs to do a little more research when it comes to military details. Units, how they talk to each other, how they act, etc. other than that, it was a great story and I would recommend to anyone. I would caveat to my military buddies that they’d need to ignore the discrepancies in military lifestyle.