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Fulcrum by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith a Russian invasion force threatening, and a downed American pilot in the Sea of Cortez, John must set aside the most personal loss of his life and continue the battle to save what remains of America. Leading a lightning mission into Mexico, he encounters survivors who have formed militias and pose a threat to anyone who is not part of their group... -
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Abaddon by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJohn is changing after becoming infected with the virus and faces an impossible decision. He must find a cure before everything he has fought for is lost, but a cure will mean sacrificing the opportunity to defeat the enemy... -
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Indestructible by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPlease note this is the full-length edition of Indestructible, not available for Kindle Unlimited. Looking to borrow with your KU subscription? Visit my author page at www.amazon.com/author/dirkpatton and look for Indestructible Parts 1 through 5. Each part is available for KU readers, and when read in order are exactly the same as the full version... -
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Recovery by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTinker Air Force Base has fallen to the infected. Rachel's plane to Seattle has been shot down over a mountain wilderness in Idaho. Is she alive? It is up to John, Katie and Dog to race against time, invading armies, blizzards, herds of infected and vicious wild predators to reach the crash site... -
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![The Undead Day Sixteen by R.R. Haywood]()
The Undead Day Sixteen by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new landscape was formed after the storm, and with it the promise of a new beginning.One race to dominate this land. One race to survive.Words were uttered beneath the Saxon while Howie fought the undead. Words that brought a whole new pressure.To be relentless and unceasing. To charge forward and never give up. To do what it takes to survive.That pressure was building and it became too much...Categorized as:
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Primal by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey're called Mr. No One and Mr. Nobody, and wherever they go, death follows. Lee Harden is out for blood. After a month, the cartel is looking over their shoulders and jumping at shadows, worried about the madmen in their backyard, who seem obsessed with little else but killing cartel members... -
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Scourge: V Plague Book 14 by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTrying to adjust to his return to civilization, John learns of the horrors yet to come that were revealed in Exodus. With Igor and Irina on their way to Siberia, he must travel to Australia to complete what may be his final and most personal mission; assassinate the Russian president... -
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Carnage by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBetween love and savagery, only one can survive - and only one will prove stronger than death. ALPHA TEAM LOOKS THE DEVIL IN THE EYE After recovering Patient Zero, Alpha must escape Africa to end the ZA once and for all... -
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Empire of the Dead by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHope Never Dies. The ARISEN series returns - putting Alpha team, MARSOC, and One Troop Royal Marines face-to-face with their most lethal adversaries ever - in the most blistering and heart-stopping chapter yet of the epic saga... -
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Defiant by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon't ever let it break you.The United Eastern States is crumbling. The fragile house of cards that Lee Harden and Angela Houston have built has begun to fall. Lee is up against a ticking clock, as he is recalled from Texas and given the last thing in the world that he wants: A promotion... -
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The Killing Line by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGabriel Garrett has faced many challenges. The battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the CIA, several years as a mercenary, and the end of the world among them. But now he faces a challenge none of his training, expertise, or combat experience have prepared him for—fatherhood... -
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Extinction Ashes by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe ashes have fallen and the dust clears to a startling discovery. . . . Beyond the reach of the nuclear infernos, the masterminds survived and continue their assault on outposts across the Allied States. Timothy Temper and Sergeant Ruckley narrowly escaped one of those attacks. On the run from hostile forces, they fight to get an urgent message to command-the monsters aren't the only threat... -
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Something To Fight For by W.J. Lundy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHome was supposed to be the endgame, but the Nation they came home to, is not the way they left it. Brad and the team find themselves quickly switching gears to embark on a greater mission, one that could cure the Primal virus. Loyalties are divided, new alliances made as old ones fall apart. The team discovers they can trust no one when they find out things are not what they seem.. -
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Alive by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRafe Duncan has been working his family’s compound for years in the event of a global catastrophe-- and doomsday has finally arrived. Both he and Charlie Brewer work at a facility where secret government experiments are carried out, experiments that are classified even to them. Then the plague breaks loose, and hell arrives on earth...Categorized as:
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Death of Empires by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHope Never Dies.With over 175,000 copies sold, the world's most thrilling and best-loved military zombie-apocalypse series returns, powering toward its epic and cataclysmic conclusion... -
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Terminus by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe only way out is through.Greeley, Colorado lies before him. Griffin’s army presses at his back.Lee Harden is out of options, and out of time.Inside the city, Sam Ryder is trapped behind enemy lines, and Acting President Briggs still maintains his stranglehold on the country—and Lee’s destiny.Choices. We are made by choices. And they make us... -
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Precipice by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Russian military has surged, invading the devastated United States in large numbers. Russian civilians are arriving, laying claim to the spoils of war. Events from John's past bring new dangers for the few remaining survivors as the Russians begin an all out effort to capture and send him to Moscow for trial and execution... -
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The Flood by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsLONDON UNDER SIEGEWith the tide of dead lapping at the walls of London, Major Jameson must decide whether to roll the dice and lead One Troop on a desperate mission into the fallen Russian Empire, to retrieve a designer pathogen so lethal it even kills the dead.. -
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Deathmatch by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHumanity's most fearsome enemy is no longer death. ALPHA AND MARSOC MEET THEIR MATCH Lurking in the bush is the dark shadow cast by the operators – a terrifying force every bit their equal in skill, ferocity, and sheer resolve… but utterly unconstrained by humanity, compassion, or brotherhood... -
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Refugees by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA SOLDIER'S MISSION IN A WORLD GONE TO HELL: SURVIVE, RESCUE, REBUILD He has fought the fight, and run the race. But the enemies never stop coming, and the race has no finish line. It has been three months since Captain Lee Harden found the survivors at Camp Ryder. With winter looming, Lee is on the verge of establishing Camp Ryder as a hub of safety and stability in the region... -
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Bound By Honor by W.J. Lundy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBound By Honor is the thrilling continuation of the Best Selling Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Series. Book 1 Escaping The Dead can be found here. ******************* Nearly two years after the fall, the survivors strive to make new lives for themselves in the Primal wasteland. With no government institutions and over eighty percent of the population gone, it is a cold and harsh new world... -
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Fractured by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis is the destiny of those who stand for others. Their honor will be bought in blood and pain. The Camp Ryder Hub is broken. Lee is nowhere to be found, and his allies are scattered across the state, each of them learning that their missions will not be as easy as they thought... -
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Savages by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEric Riordan thought he had seen the worst the post-Outbreak world had to offer. He was wrong. As the Midwest Alliance puts plans in motion to touch off a civil war, Eric and a group of elite warriors are recruited to stop them. To prevent disaster, they will venture into the heart of enemy territory on an assassination mission... -
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The Darkest Place by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor Caleb Hicks, survival means hiding in plain sight. Trained from a young age to be a super-soldier, he has worked hard to keep his abilities hidden. But after a disastrous mistake forces him into military service, hiding his skills becomes increasingly difficult. To maintain his cover, he isolates himself, rarely speaking and discussing his past with no one. Until now... -
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The Apocalypse Fugitives by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeaten and battered in mind and body, the fugitives limp west, unaware that the human world is fading all around them, unaware that the last remnants of the goodness of man is being ground under the heel of evil at every turn...Categorized as:
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Torment by W.J. Lundy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the Author of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and The Invasion Trilogy. TORMENT From the War on Terror a world crippling Bio-Weapon is released. The United States scrambles teams of scientists from the Centers For Disease Control. America's top field agent are tasked with collecting samples and developing a cure. In a national laboratory scientists race against the clock searching for a cure... -
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Extinction Inferno by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe government said the Variants were dying off...That the beasts would be extinct in a matter of years...That the Allied States had returned to prosperity and freedom ...The government was dead wrong. Deep under the cities, the Variants weren't just hiding, they were breeding... -
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Crucifixion by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn the pulse pounding continuation of the V Plague series, John, Rachel and Dog have escaped from Atlanta, finding refuge at an Air Force Base in Tennessee. After being recalled to active duty, John strikes a deal with the Army that will help him rescue his wife in Arizona, but all of his plans are quickly put in jeopardy as a second wave of infection rips through the surviving population... -
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Nemesis by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsARISENHope Never Dies.Africa Wasn't Ready.Between the fall of man and the arrival of the JFK, the Horn of Africa is a battleground.Salvation. Vengeance. Vanity... -
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Cataclysm by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHope Never Dies.This is the end game - and it's not going well.The battle to keep the undead tide from the walls of London is lost. Africa is a deadly hall of mirrors, leaving Alpha team riven with dissension and doubt. And the one man who might save the world is crashing to Earth half a world away. Only our greatest warriors can walk through this fire.Betrayal. Chaos. Courage... -
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Three Parts Dead by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA world fallen - under a plague of seven billion walking deadA tiny island nation - the last refuge of the livingOne team - of the world's most elite special operatorsThe dead, these heroes, humanity's last hope, all have...Alpha team, the world's best and last surviving Tier-1 operators, are adrift on Lake Michigan - and fast drifting into what looks like a damned hostile shoreline... -
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Warrior Within by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere are those who do not wish for peace.As the Free Legion declares war on the survivors of Hollow Rock, Gabriel and Eric find themselves drawn ever deeper into the growing conflict. Aided by a fledgling militia, and a small contingent of federal operatives, the two warriors must find a way to defeat an unyielding enemy that threatens to destroy all they have grown to love...Categorized as:
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Extinction End by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsHope rises in the hearts of those still left standing, but safety seems to be just an illusion. In a single night of shattering terror, Plum Island is destroyed, and key scientist Dr. Kate Lovato is abducted.The end has arrived...Almost seven weeks have passed since the Hemorrhage Virus ravaged the world... -
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Allegiance by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is the fifth, never-before-published, novel in the action-packed series following Special Forces Captain Lee Harden and a group of survivors struggling to survive while rebuilding an America devastated by a bacterium that has turned 90% of the population into a ravenous horde.Through an overwhelming storm of pain and adversity Captain Lee Harden has fought and survived... -
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Extinction Age by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook III in Nicholas Sansbury Smith's #1 bestselling and top-rated Extinction Cycle Series continues the fight for survival!On the eve of extinction all seems to be lost, but there is still one final hope...Operation Liberty has failed. Humans are losing the war. With no other option, General Kennor decides to pull back the troops and give science a second chance... -
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Convoy of Carnage by David A. Simpson
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe first book in a thrilling new series. The people that tried to kill the world were fiendishly clever. After decades of planning, the contagion was unleashed and overnight hundreds of millions died and came back as rampaging, undead monsters...Categorized as:
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Southlands by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAfter being sequestered to a bunker to recover from his wounds, Lee Harden is finally going topside with his fellow Project Hometown Coordinator, Terrence "Tex" Lehy. Lee wants to ally the UES with Texas, in order to combat the threat of a powerful oil cartel to the south. But Tex's methods raise serious questions, and Lee quickly discovers that Texas has its own set of problems... -
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Bloodbath on the Blacktop by David A. Simpson
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook 2 in a thrilling new series. The people that tried to kill the world almost succeeded. They were fiendishly clever but they didn’t take into account the vets, the truckers and the two-fisted fighters who didn’t know how to give up. Gunny and his band of survivors continue their journey along the Zombie Road, saving as many as they can along the way... -
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Aftermath by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNothing has gone according to plan.To Captain Lee Harden, Project Hometown feels like a distant dream and the completion of his mission seems unattainable.Wounded and weaponless, he has stumbled upon a group of survivors that seems willing to help. But a tragedy in the group causes a deep rift to come to light and forces him into action... -
![Valhalla by Mark Tufo, John O'Brien]()
Valhalla by Mark Tufo, John O'Brien
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this explosive fourth installment of the popular A Shrouded World Series, Jack is seemingly back from the dead. Mike and Trip are in a desperate bid to help their friend before he falls victim to whatever is plaguing the inhabitants of Valhalla...Categorized as:
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![Surviving the Turned by Mike Evans]()
Surviving the Turned by Mike Evans
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Orphans: Surviving the Turned Vol II picks up immediately where book one left off, with your heart broken and beating...Categorized as:
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Torment by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings**Please be aware that while there are no scenes of rape, there are scenes of attempted or perceived rape. Trigger warning for scenes of torture and physical abuse** It’s been months since the zombie outbreak took over America, and Alex Duncan is slipping... -
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Warrior's Fate by Walt Browning, Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSanctuary is an illusion ...Retired SEAL John Eric Carver and his war dog Shrek are part of a small group of survivors in a world where a man-made virus has ravished the planet. Isolated at a Boy Scout camp in the mountains outside of San Diego, the small cadre of warriors have kept their isolated community safe... -
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The Apocalypse Renegades by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNothing is simple anymore in the new undead world. Crossing a road, making tea, meeting new people, all can turn deadly in a twitch of an eye. For the Renegades who are unarmed and hounded over half the state by ruthless bounty hunters, there’s only one thing that they can say is simple: dying...Categorized as:
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Storm of Ghosts by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor years, exiles from North Korea, China, and Russia have terrorized the Western Seaboard of post-Outbreak America. And for years, the remnants of U.S. military forces have struggled to defeat them. No more. After U.S... -
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Mount Weather by David Achord
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the ongoing saga of the Zombie Rules series, Zach, his family and friends are lured from their home in Tennessee and relocate to a post-apocalyptic bunker known as Mount Weather, nestled in rural Virginia. They have been promised a better life by none other than the President himself...Categorized as:
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The Undead Day Six by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is Howie. I was named after my father Howard, but it became too confusing to have two Howards, so I became Howie. I am 27 years old and I work as a night’s manager in a supermarket.I will tell you what happened.On Friday the world fell apart. A zombie infestation has ravaged Europe...Categorized as:
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The Apocalypse Exile by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe journey across the zombie-filled country does not get easier for the renegades. The Great Plains, the heart-land of America is now home to vast herds of the undead. These savage hordes sometimes stretch as far as the eye can see. Among them live the Azael—men who have regressed back to the bloody and chaotic roots of our collective ancestors where only the strong or the blood-thirsty survive...Categorized as:
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The Undead Day Five by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is Howie. I was named after my father Howard, but it became too confusing to have two Howards, so I became Howie. I am 27 years old and I work as a night’s manager in a supermarket.I will tell you what happened.On Friday the world fell apart. A zombie infestation has ravaged Europe...Categorized as:
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Harden by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt’s been three years since Lee Harden emerged from his bunker into a world gone mad. Governments have fallen. And new ones have taken their place. In the United Eastern States, Lee and his team of battle-hardened operatives walk a tightrope of survival, keeping their fledgling society safe from the creatures beyond their gates--and from the enemies within...
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