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Jack Archer Post Apocalyptic Survival
Series · 3 books · 2018-2019

Books in series

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#1

Things Fall Down

2018

Two states from his daughter, and the missiles have been launched... Jack Archer is a train wreck. Stripped of his medical license, his marriage destroyed, hollowed out by grief and guilt, and reliant on alcohol to manage a pain the surgeons insist is all in his head. He’d have to climb for days just to reach the gutter. And then a call from an old colleague changes everything. Something terrible is about to happen on the west coast. A nuclear blast has sent the nation into a panic. The government has triggered Condition Black, a chilling secret contingency plan intended as the last resort after the last resort has failed, and Jack’s ex-wife and seven year old daughter are standing in the line of fire. Will he reach Emily before the missiles hit? Can he fight his way though the chaos and earn one final shot at redemption, or is Jack Archer cursed to watch another child die?
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#2

Shock Wave

2019

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SAVE THE LIFE OF YOUR DAUGHTER? Still hundreds of miles from his little girl with no car, no food, and only the company of an excitable labrador, Boomer, Jack Archer has a long journey ahead of him, and not an inch of it will be easy. Between deadly nuclear fallout, destroyed cities and new allies he's not sure he can entirely trust, there are a thousand ways tomorrow could kill him. Hundreds of miles to the south Jack's ex-wife Karen is running out of time, trapped in the ruins of San Francisco, poisoned by radioactive fallout. But as she leaves the city behind she's about to learn that she, Emily and Doctor Ramos are in much greater danger than they ever imagined. They're about to learn who dropped the bombs. SHOCK WAVE is the second novel of the lightning-paced, heart-stopping, gut-wrenching Jack Archer post-apocalyptic survival series. ... a truly compulsive page turner, the kind of book that forces you at gunpoint to the next chapter all the way to the end.
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#3

Year Zero

2019

WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES... The west coast is gone, wiped from the map. Six cities have been razed to the ground in a nuclear attack that has shocked the world, and the terrified survivors flee inland to escape the chaos, destruction and radioactive fallout. Too many survivors... Something doesn't add up... Jack Archer doesn't give a damn who launched the missiles. Right now he only cares about saving his wife and daughter, but as he continues south even he can't help but notice that nothing about the attack makes sense. Why did so few die? Why was Portland spared? Where's the invasion? As the disaster continues to unfold and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear war Jack realizes that he's not just in this to save his family. If millions are to be saved he needs to discover the truth. He needs to find out who launched the attack, and why. And only Karen Archer knows the truth... YEAR ZERO is the third and final novel of the lightning-paced, heart-stopping, gut-wrenching Jack Archer post-apocalyptic survival series. ... a truly compulsive page turner, the kind of book that forces you at gunpoint to the next chapter all the way to the end.

Author

Keith Taylor
Keith Taylor
Author · 13 books

Keith Taylor is the true identity of the million plus selling author behind the pen names Aya Fukunishi and K A Taylor, who toiled for years writing bizarrely popular romance novels while he secretly longed to return to his true calling: explosively awesome post-apocalyptic fiction. Keith hails from the rainy suburbs of Manchester in the north of England. He lives with his wife, Otgontsetseg, and splits his time between Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Bangkok, Thailand. He survives on a diet of meat, cheese, beer and cigarettes, and he probably shouldn't still be alive. For news about upcoming releases, sales and various other nonsense you can follow Keith on Facebook or subscribe to his mailing list.

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