Disruption Series by R. E. McDermott
Disruption #1
Under a Tell-Tale Sky: Disruption - Book 1
R. E. McDermott
A different sort of post-apocalyptic thriller.Imagine you won the lottery the same day everyone else went bankrupt — then learn you can only collect your winnings in cash in the worst part of town.When the lights go out, seemingly for good, Captain Jordan Hughes quickly discovers being stranded far from home on a ship with working generators and a cargo of ten million gallons of irreplaceable fuel isn’t exactly a low profile position. Faced with rising crew discontent, and surrounded by worsening violence ashore, it appears things can’t get much worse — until FEMA comes calling.As what remains of the federal government becomes increasingly corrupt and self-serving, Hughes joins a ragtag band of sailors, farmers, ex-Coast Guardsmen, and dissident soldiers in an effort to re-unite his crew with their families and use remaining resources to rebuild a devastated society. Along the way they face a desperate and starving population, powerful street gangs and bands of escaped convicts, and powerful warlords created as an unintended consequence of the federal government’s ill-advised use of mercenaries.
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