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Crawlerz
Crawlerz
Series · 7 books · 2020-2022
By
R.S. Merritt
Books in series
#1
Red Sky in the Morning
2020
Are you ready for the end? An ancient tomb is unearthed live on cable TV after months of hype. It's billed as the archeological equivalent of Shark Week. The actual footage takes a turn no one ever expected. Those minutes of footage will be combed over by governments worldwide seeking to understand what horror came out of that tomb. They watched the news for weeks as an infection spread quickly across the globe. The videos posted online of people ripping into each other like cannibals on PCP were unreal. The support from the authorities was a joke. No one had a plan in place for this. At least not a plan that involved saving everyone... Join a tight knit family of outcasts who'll do anything for one another as they battle their way through this freak show. A reality where might makes right and the only thing worse than running out of food and water is running out of ammunition.
#2
Batten Down the Hatches
2020
The journey to build a new life in the destruction of the world continues. The orphaned trio are forced to fight for one another in a world where corpses litter the streets. A world where adrenaline amped psychotic crawlerz own the night. Hope and love for one another light the way through a dark and dreary world where everyday you survive is a good day. Put your back solidly against the wall and pickup where book one left off. Make sure the wall you're against is solid enough to keep the monsters out.
#3
The Mountains Are Calling
2021
The nights grow longer with winter's coming.
With more time to roam the infectious menace of the crawlerz continues to spread to every corner of the continent. It won't be long until nowhere is really safe. With their strange powers and superhuman strength growing daily the crawlerz are poised to completely annihilate the human race. If not in this lifetime then certainly in the dwindling of future generations. Huddled in wretched little holes. Terrified to venture out into the world once the sun sets. Picking away at the slowly shrinking mountains of MREs and canned spam humanity will eventually cease to exist. Unless they stand up now to the tyrannical cowards supposedly charged with protecting the people there may not be a people left for the corrupt politicians to exploit. Drew, Yue and LeBron are confronted with impossible choices in this third release in the crawlerz series. Do they choose the easy path or take the one through the mountain pass where the slightest misstep could leave them buried in an avalanche? Join their journey to see. This is the third book in the crawlerz series.
#4
From the Ashes
2021
You can run forever or you can turn around and fight. Fighting hordes of the insane imbued with super human strength and broadcasting waves of psychic terror might not seem like a great idea. It might even seem a little suicidal. Trying to go toe to toe with millions of monsters when you've got limited ammunition and a President that kind of hopes you lose. Suicidal or not the sibling trio of Yue, Drew and LeBron are ready to dig in their heels and do some serious damage. Follow along in book 4 of the crawlerz series as they try to make a meaningful difference. They commit to a goal of carving out enough safe space that people can start leading semi-normal lives again within a generation or two. Even if it is a bit like trying to drain the ocean with a soup spoon...
#5
Off the Rails
2021
The intensity ratchets up even more in Book 5 of the Crawlerz series. The infected continue to develop subtle new powers that could spell the end of the normal human race. Mankind is scattered and resources are growing more limited by the day. Add in a large percentage of the population that was left high and dry by their elected leaders who now have a deadly chip on their shoulders. Hope has become a four letter word.Into this wretched new normal strides our trio of everyday heroes. Yue, Drew, and LeBron may not wear capes. They may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound but they share the moral compass of those tights wearing guardians of humanity. That moral compass and their love for one another is what they're betting will see them safely to the end of the race. Drew's bringing a big bag of grenades along to just in case....
#6
Carry a Big Stick
2021
The country is in its death throes. The infected are getting stronger. Warlords are rising up to carve off sections of the country for themselves. Amidst all of this chaos a trio of siblings stand tall. Aligned with a key group of power players in this apocalyptic setting they work to weave back together the tapestry of a fragile nation. At the end of the day they just want to be able to go to bed at night without worrying if they're going to still be alive by morning. The things that would've worn down most people only serve to sharpen their edge. A new threat emerges from the hordes of the infected. Monsters who can manipulate the other crawlerz. Monsters who can break the minds of the people trying to survive behind closed doors. This new threat may well signal the beginning of the end for the human race. This is book 6 of the Crawlerz series.
#7
The Beginning of the End
2022
Humanity retreats as the infected continue to mutate into nightmare wielding super psychopaths.
There's only so much that can be accomplished with bullets and bombs against an enemy that just keeps coming. Culling the herd doesn't eliminate all of the strong ones. The truly evil malicious beings that are shepherding their infected flocks to seek and destroy the last remnants of sanity on the continent. Against this backdrop of universal despair Yue, Drew, and LeBron struggle to navigate the currents of pandemic politics while still doing their best to help humanity survive. Assisted by the remnants of the US Military as well as the infamous Suicide Squad they do their best to fight the good fight. Guided by a strong sense of right and wrong instilled in the three of them by their late parents they're unable to just walk away. Join them as they once again step up to the plate. It's the bottom of the ninth and bases are loaded with two outs already. The odds are stupid at this point. This trio still has to come up with the courage to swing for the fences though.
Author
R.S. Merritt
Author · 30 books