Blackout Trail
A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller
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Narrated by:
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Elena Anderson
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By:
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Linda Naughton
About this listen
When the world goes dark, a doctor embarks on a perilous journey.
Doctor Anna Hastings is no stranger to disasters, having spent much of her career as an aid worker in conflict zones around the world. Yet when an electrical phenomenon known as an EMP brings down the power grid, Anna faces catastrophe on a scale she never imagined. She must learn what it means to be a doctor in a world deprived of almost all technology.
As the blackout causes planes to fall from the sky, Anna crosses paths with devoted father Mark Ryan in the chaos at the airport. Mark convinces Anna to travel with him and his seven-year-old daughter Lily to their family’s cabin in remote Maine. There Mark hopes to reunite with his wife, and find a safe refuge from a society on the brink of collapse.
Journeying across a thousand miles of backcountry trails, they will face a daily struggle against nature. Their biggest peril, though, may come from their fellow survivors. As Anna grows closer to Mark and Lily, she resolves to see them safely home. But can she hold onto her humanity in a world gone mad?
©2022 Linda Naughton (P)2023 Linda NaughtonAnna manages to get Mark out and so begins their epic journey together.
They soon determine a widespread EMP has occurred and in the absence of any working transport or communications, and with society on the verge of collapsing around them, They embark on a thousand mile hike along back woods trails to get to Maine, where Mark hopes to find his wife will have taken shelter in a rural cabin owned by the family.
Anna is an experienced emergency room doctor, who has regularly worked overseas for MSF and can keep a cool head in a crisis. Mark is an engineer and a good man who is desperate to reunite his family.
Their journey is fraught with trials, both physical and emotional.. and the bond they form along away brings its own complications.
There's occasional danger at the hands of other people, but it's not a story filled with gratuitous violence like some others in the genre.
A very good story, well written, wonderfully narrated and it's even left open for a possible sequel.
I for one would be keen to know what happens next...
A well crafted tale of an EMP disaster.
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