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Surviving the Evacuation, Book 1: London

By: Frank Tayell
Narrated by: Tim Bruce
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Summary

The outbreak began in New York. Soon it had spread to the rest of the world. People were attacked and infected, and they died. Then they came back. Nowhere is safe from the undead.

As anarchy and civil war took grip across the globe, Britain was quarantined. The press was nationalized. Martial law, curfews, and rationing were implemented. It wasn't enough. An evacuation was planned.

Bill Wright broke his leg on the day of the outbreak. Unable to join the evacuation, he watched from his window as the streets filled with refugees, he watched as the streets emptied once more. He watched as they filled up again, this time with the undead.

He is trapped. He is alone. He is running out of food and water. He knows that to reach the safety of the enclaves, he will have to venture out into the wasteland that once was England. On that journey he will ultimately discover the horrific truth about the outbreak, a decades-old conspiracy, and his unwitting part in it.

This is the first volume of his journal.

©2013 Frank Tayell (P)2015 Frank Tayell Horror Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction Scary Zombie
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I'm a fan of dystopian books but this one failed to set my world alight.
The rather clichéd 'missed the end of the world due to hospitalisation' is present here. As per the precedent set by John Wyndham in his classic Day of The Triffids. In fact if one were to map it out, this is virtually just an modernised version of it.
The poor story is rescued somewhat by good narration.
Do yourself a favour and get Day of The Triffids. Yes it's quaint but it's better than this poor attempt at rewriting it.

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Actually much better than I was expecting. Follows the story of a British politician with a broken leg as he struggles to survive after the zombie apocalypse. Looks at the very real and the political.
An interesting slant on this genre.
However, although I was interested in the character, I would not say I was emotionally involved. And I can’t say I’d be willing to read the 10 sequels to this book.

Not bad at all

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Not to bad. I'm going to give it 5 stars in the hope that the rest of the books in the series are more zombie surviving and killing classics. Although I can see that there is an underlying storyline of how humans are really the biggest threat. Some good apocalyptic survival techniques in there... The story continues....

Zombielikeable

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Quite a calm storey. Not the usual zombie kill fest. Interesting twists along the way. Looking forward to book 2.

Enjoyable storey, good narrator

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hard to start into the book but it starts to get a hold of you . it could very well happen with places like Porton Down in UK and Plum Island in the states
doing weird experiments.

once into it not bad at actually very good

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