End Game

By: Ginger Booth

Narrated by: Laura Bannister

Time ran out on climate change.

Super-storms. Government surveillance and breakdown.

Tech whisperer Dee Baker seeks safety.

Because the climate science was almost right. It was already too late. Weather disasters spin out of control. Food prices skyrocket. Refugees spill everywhere, including Americans fleeing the dust bowl, floods, and hurricanes.

Congress has a plan, the Calm Act. Its public face is martial law. The secret measures are worse.

Dee's job provides her classified access to the truth. They promise her an ark berth, secure in a sealed biosphere. But she doesn't trust them to deliver. She's also dating Adam, a fun ark-itect, and Zack, who plans to organize the community and take a stand outside the arks.

In this apocalyptic adventure, set in the Northeast, ordinary people face a mounting climate crisis, and a government that seems to have betrayed them.

Dee needs a plan. Because the storms won't wait.

If you enjoy vivid characters, compelling world-building, and page-turning action, you'll love this first book of Ginger Booth's day-after-tomorrow Calm Act series.

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©2015 Ginger Booth (P)2017 Ginger Booth

Excellent

Loved this book, her characters were built until I felt like I was in this story. Can't wait for her next book. I recommend this book and always loved her as a writer.

An Important First Novel

Would you listen to End Game again? Why?

I would. I've listened to it and read it, and I think it's an important contribution to spreading the word about climate change and the consequences that will befall us all, albeit in a very entertaining story.

What other book might you compare End Game to and why?

I've never read anything like it except for the other books in the Calm Act series.

This is Ms. Booth’s first novel and it is a promising start. The dystopian future she envisions is “near turn” and feels plausible. It is a dark and horrible future—it is the end of the species after all--but our heroine and the rest of the cast are strong and engaged and we breeze along with them with faith and with hope for their (and our) future. I think this is an important subject and I hope the book is widely read.

What about Laura Bannister’s performance did you like?

I think she's well captured the softness of Dee Baker while revealing her strength and creativity.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

So many, so many. The aborted "last trip" to Montreal. The escape from Adam's house. The formation of the food cooperative. How Dee discovered and used the "truth" that had been hidden from the population, including the armed forces. Her abduction from the Ark and incarceration by Homeland Security. The death of Zack.

Any additional comments?

The world has failed to come to grips with global warming and with climate change, and it is now too late to do anything about preventing the crisis. There are global water and food shortages and massive migrations of people seeking a place and a way to survive. Equally bad, weather patterns are violent and unpredictable and capable of dramatically reducing population levels.

Internationally, each nation finds that they must commit draconian acts to ensure their own survival. Russia nukes the Middle East, the European Union reverts to banishing all Moslems who won’t convert (something they last did in the Middle Ages), and the United States blockades their coasts and secures their borders, both internationally and within the country. Freedom of movement and most of our guaranteed freedoms have been effectively abrogated. Canada is doing what it can and may even absorb some new provinces from the northern tier of US states as a way to “help out.”

The US government and their Homeland Security Apparatus are building “arks,” protected areas where some level of the population can survive the killing weather, the shortages, and life inhibiting atmosphere. The rest of the population--the government won’t say this--but they are probably to be considered expendable.

Different take on the breakdown of society

I really enjoyed this book. I found the perspective fresh and interesting. Without giving away anything, I thought the crisis with the climate, environment, medical situation and the breakdown/rebuilding of the US society to be a new take and not as heavy handed and violent as some other PA books.

where is book 2 and 3?

loved the book wish the other book were available. This has happened to me too often that the remaining books are not available on audio.

two thumbs up

Ginger did an amazing job with the storyline and narration. can't wait to listen to more of her work!!