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A land in ruin. A state on the verge of secession. A man on the run.
In a future California ravaged by drought and on the brink of political upheaval, a high-profile assassination triggers a cascade of violence and sabotage facilitated by the highest levels of power. Nathan Fisher, an unassuming government employee, is drawn into the unraveling conspiracy after accidentally witnessing a suspiciously timed clandestine military-style operation.
Hunted by ruthless killers seeking to ensure his silence, suspected by the authorities, and aided only be a loyal Marine officer with a mysterious agenda, Fisher and his family must somehow stay a step ahead of their relentless pursuers, navigating a dangerously changed world in a desperate search for sanctuary.
With their lives on the line and California on the brink of secession, can they save themselves—and ultimately their country?
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThomas & Mercer
- Publication date17 May 2016
- File size3515 KB
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About the Author
Steven Konkoly is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and a veteran of various regular and elite Navy and Marine Corps units. He has brought his in-depth military experience to bear in his fiction, penning the speculative thrillers The Jakarta Pandemic, The Perseid Collapse, and The Black Flagged series. Konkoly lives in central Indiana with his family.
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- ASIN : B018IAZMYW
- Publisher : Thomas & Mercer (17 May 2016)
- Language : English
- File size : 3515 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 402 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 118,022 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 755 in Dystopian Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- 782 in Military Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- 1,137 in Dystopian Fiction
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About the author
Steven Konkoly is the Wall Street Journal and repeated #1 Amazon bestseller of over twenty thrillers.
Steven graduated from the United States Naval Academy, receiving a bachelor of science in English literature. He served the next eight years on active duty, traveling the world as a naval officer assigned to various Navy and Marine Corps units. His extensive journey spanned the globe, including a two-year tour of duty in Japan—and travel to more than twenty countries throughout Asia and the Middle East.
From enforcing United Nations sanctions against Iraq, as a maritime boarding officer in the Arabian Gulf, to directing aircraft bombing runs and naval gunfire strikes as a Forward Air Controller (FAC) assigned to a specialized Marine Corps unit, Steven's "in-house" experience with a wide range of regular and elite military units brings a unique authenticity to his thrillers.
He still wakes up at "zero dark thirty" to write for most of the day. When "off duty," he spends as much time as possible outdoors or travelling with his family--and dog.
Steven is an active member of the International Thriller Writers (ITW) and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) organizations.
You can contact Steven directly by email (stevekonkoly@striblingmedia.com) or through his blog (www.stevenkonkoly.com).
WORK BY STEVEN KONKOLY
DEEP SLEEP SERIES—Conspiracy/Espionage/Black Ops thrillers
"Stopping the most dangerous conspiracy to ever threaten America means believing the unthinkable. A modern day conspiracy thriller filled with twists and turns."
1.) Deep Sleep
2.) Coming Dawn (October 2022)
THE RYAN DECKER BOOKS—Action-Adventure/Vigilante/Black Ops/Conspiracy thrillers
"A heart-pumping thriller of betrayal, revenge, and conspiracy for fans of Tom Clancy and Lee Child."
1.) The Rescue
2.) The Raid
3.) The Mountain
4.) Skystorm
THE BLACK FLAGGED SERIES—Black Ops/Political/Conspiracy/Espionage thrillers
"A gritty, no-holds barred covert operations and espionage saga."
0.) INCEPTION (PREQUEL)
1.) ALPHA
2.) REDUX
3.) APEX
4.) VEKTOR
4.5) COVENANT
5.) OMEGA
THE ALEX FLETCHER BOOKS—Action-Adventure/Conspiracy/Dystopian thrillers
"A tense, thriller epic, chronicling the aftermath of an inconceivable attack on the United States."
1.) The Jakarta Pandemic
2.) The Perseid Collapse
3.) Event Horizon
4.) Point of Crisis
5.) Dispatches
THE FRACTURED STATE SERIES—Dystopian/Conspiracy/Near future techothrillers
"A near future conspiracy series set in a southwest United States on the verge of secession."
1.) Fractured State
2.) Rogue State
THE ZULU VIRUS CHRONICLES: A BLACK FLAGGED THRILLER SERIES SPIN OFF—Bioweapons/Conspiracy/Post-apocalyptic thrillers
"A modern thriller series based on the events surrounding an unthinkable bioweapons attack against the United States."
1.) Hot Zone
2.) Kill Box
3.) Fire Storm
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Hopefully things will get better as the series goes on. You know I will be buying the next book, just to see if I have to improve my Spanish :-)
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This one starts with the death of Elissa Almeda who's a senior congressional representative for the State of California. A State that seems to have deep sixed the constitution. A State where some want to secede from the Union. A State where others will do whatever it takes to stay part of the Union.
Almeda's murder will start the ball rolling on a chain of events and deaths to further the cause of a group of men and women who don't want Cali to secede from the Union. A death that takes place in Washington DC. A death where her killer is her chief of security. A man who's employed by that group of men and women.
In the State everything is monitored. Everyone has a California Resource card to buy groceries and gasoline with. They swipe when buying anything and the card keep track of what resources are used. Time spent out of your residential district is recorded. Cameras are everywhere recording everything along with police check points. Phones can be tapped. Even burner phones can be listened to. The State is anything but an enjoyable place to live and the State has been experiencing a twenty year drought so water consumption is carefully monitored.
Mason Flagg works for the men who engineered Almeda's death. NIck Leeds is his go to guy for death and destruction. A Nick Leeds who was Almeda's Chief of Security. A Leeds who murdered her on Flagg's orders. Her death was part of a plan to swing things the groups way and not the secessionists.
Nathan Fisher is a water reclamation engineer and had moved to California from Tucson, AZ. California was thriving economically an observation that wasn't lost on Fisher when he received multiple job offers after he resigned from the Tucson Water authority. Things were under control in California. Swiping a state issued card to buy food and gas for the rest of his life seemed like a small trade off for the security California seemed capable of providing. He, his wife Kiera and son Owen moved to California. How quickly he realized the State wasn't as secure as one might think.
Nathans dad retired as a Sgt. Major in the Marine Corp. While Nathan joined the ROTC and learned about guns and his Dad took him on all the bases he never wanted to be in the military. He went to college and has two degrees but he still knows how to handle a gun and has never forgotten what his father taught him.
Nathan goes to the ocean several times a week to get water. He has a desalinization machine at home. This provides he and his family with more water than what he and his family are entitled to. On his last trip to the beach he thought he saw something in the ocean. He got his binoculars out to look. Sure enough he saw boats. Boats with no lights and what looked like four men in scuba gear getting into them from the ocean. He watched to boats leave. Next thing he knew an SUV was right in front of him. Fisher lay down behind the scrub grass and stayed still. The vehicle used a spotlight to look around then left. Fisher was wondering just what the hell he just saw.
The next day he found out that there was a problem at one of the nuclear plants. This nuclear plant that was on shore next to where the boats were. Nathan didn't tell Kiera what he saw and he knew he should have. The fact that he saw what he saw is going to put he and his family in the path of murderers.
So begins a pretty good read.
This one has Nathan, Kiera, Owen, Captain David Quinn who saves Fishers and his families lives, a Quinn who takes out several of the bad guys to get Nathan and his family out of his house, a Quinn who takes them to Camp Pendleton, a Quinn who turns out to be one very capable guy, his wife Alison, Nick Leeds, Flagg, his bosses, a murdered police officer, a Nathan who's framed for that murder, Ray Olmos an ex Navy SEAL who works for Leeds, an Olmos and his men who tampered with the nuclear reactor causing it to be shut down, a Leeds with orders to kill Fisher and his family, a Leeds who leaves evidence at Fishers house making it look like he killed the police officer that Leeds actually killed, Fishers Mom and Dad who live in Utah, his Dad who gets the word from Quinn's Dad to bug out, a Nathan, Kiera and Owen who are hidden in Camp Pendleton, the San Diego PD who's looking for Nathan who they see as a cop killer, the Commandant of Camp Pendleton who isn't letting them in to search for anyone, a Quinn who's approached by his Commander and told he and Fisher and family will be leaving headed for Yuma, a Flagg who finds this out, an all out attack by Leeds on the Marines and Nathan Fisher doing his best to save his family figure it all out and stay alive.
Five Stars.
However, I had a hard time liking the main character and his wife. They were annoying and often rude to the people that save their lives and despite learning that they were in danger by almost dying sever times, they kept ignoring the people that know things and floundered their way from one rescue to another.
Lastly, it feels like there should have been a book 3. The story rather abruptly ends, leaving a number of questions unanswered and missions uncomplete.