American Wasteland

By: Nick Cole

Narrated by: Nick Cole

Forty years after the destruction of civilization...man is reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One man’s most prized possession is an ancient novel. With the words of the classic echoing across the wasteland, the survivor of the nuclear holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse. What follows is an incredible tale of survival and endurance.

One man must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to live the classic struggle of man versus nature. Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the post-apocalyptic American southwest.

©2011, 2019 by Nick Cole (The Old Man and the Wasteland); 2013, 2019 by Nick Cole (The Savage Boy and The Road is a River) (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

Really very good

Well written. Good character development and nicely descriptive. A bit dark but a really great book. Nice to hear the writer be the narrator. Nice job Nick Cole

compelling world, story & characters

I put this in my top 5 books. worth it.... Thought provoking story that keeps you thinking about what you might do faced in this frighteningly realistic scenario.

Should be be essential reading

I’ve listened to the story multiple times now. It’s a compilation of three different books that all connect. The first book is an absolute classic, the second one is my favorite, and I get choked up at the end of the third book every time. If you’ve listened to it then you know what I mean.
The stories are all brilliant on their own but all together, they are a masterpiece.

A masterpiece in storytelling

Nick Cole absolutely knocked it out of the park! If you've read any of Nick's work you already know that the story is excellent and the writing spellbinding. In this audiobook, he takes it a step further and shows us a supreme archetype of the wonder that can happen when an author narrates their own story. His passion for his tale pours out into it, and takes a simple audiobook and turns it into you and some grizzled and well met fellow traveler sitting around a campfire in the cold desert air outside Tucson as he tells you tales of what was, or is, or could one day be. Follow along as he tells you about an Old Man looking for redemption, a Savage Boy looking for himself, and a journey through the wasteland as good hearted people try to make the world just a little bit better than it is. I could not be more satisfied with the time spent listening.

Excellent stories of wonderful characters!

This series inspired me to write my first review. I loved the 2 main characters! They were so well developed even though the characters were alone for much of the books. I loved hearing their thoughts, doubts, loves, fears, and hopes that kept them going!

I cannot recommend this series highly enough!