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Massive solar flares bombard the Earth. An intense electromagnetic pulse undermines America’s power grid, wreaking havoc. Panic and chaos ensue in cities like New Orleans, where 16-year-old Mitch Henley was stranded after driving his parents to the airport. The son of a game warden in a rural Mississippi county, Mitch is an expert hunter and woodsman and knows he can survive back on his family’s remote 600 acres. With no way to know if his parents’ plane landed safely or crashed because of the pulse, Mitch sets out alone to walk home.

Days have turned into weeks with no contact from anyone outside of North America, where the power, communication, and transportation grid has been completely destroyed by massive solar flares. In the ensuing chaos, grocery store shelves have been stripped bare and panicked survivors have fled the cities and towns, sweeping across the countryside in a desperate attempt to find sustenance and avoid the violence.

The three latest books in THE PULSE SERIES In a world suddenly plunged into darkness, a father stranded in the Caribbean sets sail for New Orleans, desperate to reach his only daughter. But finding her is only the beginning of a long ordeal that will take him back out to sea to escape the violent nightmare of a crippled modern world without food, communication or transportation. In his old life, Dr. Artie Drager practiced medicine at a V.A. hospital in a small southern city. In the aftermath of a devastating EMP, he will soon find himself wielding a rifle to fight for his life and charting ...

Warning sirens are blaring. You have 15 minutes to evacuate. What will you do? Cataclysmic events strike sleepy towns and major cities every year. Residents face escaping quickly or perishing in rising waters, raging fires, or other life-threatening conditions. By the time the evacuation starts, it's already too late. Being prepared makes the difference between survival and disaster. Guiding you step by step, Bug Out tells you how to be ready at a second's notice.

Tourists visit popular islands of the Caribbean by the planeload. What they don't see from their resort hotels are the hundreds of out-of-the-way, uninhabited islands sprinkled along the West Indies, from Florida to South America. This alluring archipelago, strung with beaches accessible only by boat but spaced temptingly close together, led Mississippi adventurer Scott B. Williams to embark upon an open-ended quest to see how far south he could go in a 17-foot sea kayak.

Science magazine describes the Pascagoula River of southeast Mississippi as the last unaltered large river system in the lower 48 states and southern Canada. Along its banks and watershed, 600,000 acres of public lands - wildlife management areas, national forest, wilderness areas, national wildlife refuges, Nature Conservancy preserves - ensure the creation of a tremendous natural river system.

How far would you go to get your family out if you were convinced that America was doomed? Would you build an underground bunker and stockpile it with ammunition and supplies? Buy a cabin in the woods and start growing all your own food? Not if you were obsessed with boats the way Terry Bailey is obsessed. Terry has an escape plan to sail to the very ends of the earth; the only real option left to survive what's coming, according to him.

The lights are still out, and death and destruction arrive at the gate... Just as Mitch Henley is reunited with April Gibbs, a friend he'd never expected to see again, more trouble arrives at the remote Henley farm in the form of murderous raiders on horseback. Outnumbered and surrounded, Mitch and his friends must outwit their attackers and somehow prevail. Nothing has been easy in their struggle to survive the collapse of the grid, but determination has kept them alive. Will Mitch's skill match the challenge of this new test? The Forge of Darkness is the third book set in the desperate, ...

Ruthless marauders leave Mitch Henley and his band of survivors homeless... When the remote Henley homestead is burned to the ground in a brutal attack, Mitch and his friends bury their dead and move to a deep woods hideaway where survival becomes a struggle against raw nature. But they are soon faced with another crisis that requires something that can only be found in the ruins of the towns and cities. Taking a single companion, Mitch embarks on a perilous quest into dangers unknown. The others wait and wonder if he will return, while in his absence an unexpected visitor tracks them to ...

The grid has been down for seven months now, and law and order has completely given way to anarchy and violence. Seventeen-year-old Mitch Henley has returned to his family's backwoods homestead to avoid the dangers of the cities and towns and look after his little sister while they wait hopefully for their parents' return.

AMERICA IS PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS WHEN MASSIVE SOLAR FLARES DESTROY THE GRID. Enter the Darkness is a prequel novella to The Darkness After Series, an ongoing tale of survival, adventure and romance set in the aftermath of the breakdown of civilization. Two teenagers from completely different worlds are destined to meet when they are suddenly stranded in New Orleans, cut off from their loved ones and forced to adapt to a life without technology or law and order. Sixteen-year-old Mitch Henley sets out on foot to walk out of the city and return to the backwoods farm where his game warden ...

La lutte pour la survie dans un monde de chaos et d'anarchie... Le danger guette à chaque tournant dans une nation ravagée par l'insurrection violente et l'effondrement économique. La mission d'Eric Branson en revenant en Floride était de retrouver sa fille et de la mettre en sécurité. Mais l'ancien Navy SEAL et contractuel privé apprend de son ex-femme que Megan se trouve à près de 3000 kilomètres de là, dans le Colorado. Pour y parvenir, il doit d'abord traverser le Golfe jusqu'en Louisiane, où son frère Keith est adjoint au shérif. Eric et son équipage, comprenant son ...

Une faille dans le temps et un voyage sans retour... De retour de sa dernière mission avec les Marines américains, Alan Carson traverse la Gila Wilderness du Nouveau-Mexique pour réfléchir à son avenir et laisser la guerre derrière lui. Lorsque son meilleur ami et chef d'escouade, le sergent Kurt Timms, a reçu une balle des Talibans à cause de mauvais renseignements, Alan a fait une promesse à son ami mourant. Il viendrait ici pour voir les montagnes escarpées qui étaient le terrain de jeu d'enfance de Kurt, même si la chasse à cheval qu'ils avaient prévue n'aurait jamais lieu...

Dans une Amérique post-apocalyptique du futur proche, les attentats terroristes, les émeutes et l'insurrection ont transformé les villes en zones de guerre... Eric Branson, ancien Navy SEAL devenu agent de sécurité professionnel, combattait les insurrections en Europe lorsqu'il apprend que son propre pays connaît le même sort. Mais avant qu'il ne puisse rentrer chez lui en Floride, un ouragan catastrophique porte le coup de grâce à des infrastructures déjà ravagées par les émeutes et les attentats, laissant les survivants isolés et livrés à eux-mêmes. Au milieu de la mort ...

Quand rien n'est simple... La tromperie, la ruse et les embuscades menacent de faire échouer les plans d'Eric Branson peu après son arrivée dans le sud de la Louisiane. Eric découvre rapidement que le département du shérif où travaille Keith a été décimé par les émeutes et les attaques terroristes. Les infrastructures ont également été gravement endommagées par le même ouragan qui a dévasté le sud de la Floride, laissant les survivants affamés et désespérés dans un monde où l'ordre est impossible à maintenir. Pour Eric, atteindre la Louisiane n'est qu'une étape de ...

Who can you trust when even the police have become desperate marauders? Their quest for refuge in the southern Bahamas proves short-lived when Artie and Larry and the rest of their crew survive a deadly encounter and must quickly leave the island nation or face accusations of murder. Once again, they set sail for the open sea, with no idea whether what they'll find over the horizon will be any better than the nightmare in their wake. HORIZONS BEYOND THE DARKNESS is the fifth book in this EMP thriller series featuring a world plunged into darkness, a father stranded in the Caribbean, and a ...

Does a sailing voyage ever really go as planned? Not when the world has been turned upside down by a devastating solar flare that disrupts GPS and communications systems. Landfall in the Bahamas doesn't work out the way Artie and Larry Drager envisioned, because now the two brothers must search a vast archipelago of out islands in hopes of finding their missing crew member. A stranger they encounter on a remote cay complicates matters even further, putting their vessels and their lives at risk. LANDFALL: ISLANDS IN THE AFTERMATH, is the fourth book in this EMP thriller series featuring a ...