After America, John Birmingham
After America, John Birmingham
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After America

Author: John Birmingham

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Unabridged: 20 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/24/2010


Synopsis

March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government headquartered in Seattle directs the reconstruction of an entire nation—and the battle for New York City has begun.

Pirates and foreign militias are swarming the East Coast, taking everything they can. The president comes to the Declared Security Zone of New York and barely survives the visit. The enemy—whoever they are—controls Manhattan's concrete canyons and the abandoned flatlands of Long Island. The U.S. military, struggling with sketchy communications and a lack of supplies, is mired in a nightmare of urban combat.

Caught up in the violence is a Polish-born sergeant who watches the carnage through the eyes of an intellectual and with the heart of a warrior. Two smugglers, the highborn Lady Julianne Balwyn and her brawny partner, Rhino, search for a treasure whose key lies inside an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Thousands of miles away, a rogue general leads the secession of Texas and a brutal campaign against immigrants, while Miguel Pieraro, a Mexican-born rancher, fights back. And in England, a U.S. special ops agent is called into a violent shadow war against an enemy that has come after her and her family.

The president is a stranger to the military mindset, but now this mild-mannered city engineer from the Pacific Northwest needs to make a soldier's choice. With New York clutched in the grip of thousands of heavily armed predators, is an all-out attack on the city the only way to save it?

About John Birmingham

John Birmingham is the author of Without Warning, Final Impact, Designated Targets, Weapons of Choice, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, How to Be a Man, The Search for Savage Henry, and Leviathan, which won the National Award for Nonfiction at Australia's Adelaide Festival of the Arts. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, Playboy, and numerous other magazines. He lives at the beach with his wife, daughter, son, and two cats.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Graeme on April 18, 2019

3 stars. This series suffers from being written as a series of independent threads, with 'at best,' marginal, tenuous cross-overs links. There are elements, and characters I liked, especially Caitlan, and Jules. But, its a book I'll only ever read once.......more

Goodreads review by Eric on September 25, 2023

For some reason, I had started this book instead of Without Warning. Anyway, I had read some of this and liked it. Then I got the trilogy and started from the start of the series. Book 2 finds the same characters, years later, eeking their existence from life that had consumed the United States. The......more

Goodreads review by T.J. on July 05, 2016

Big fan of this whole series and wish John Birmingham would get back to it. This is the second of two in a trilogy about a large part of the US being wiped out by an unexplained 'energy distortion'. Yeah, dumb premise, but an entertaining 'what if' - what if the USA just disappeared from the geopolit......more

Goodreads review by Garth on July 17, 2022

DNF. I tried to like this book. It’s got a very interesting premise. There were pieces of brilliance but I had a hard time pulling them together. Each story on its own was interesting and maybe if I had pushed through they would have made sense.......more

Goodreads review by A~ on September 14, 2012

Part two of John's Birmingham's Without Warning Series. For people who listen to audio books, it is terrible to listen to one then the next right after it. It might be the same reader, but it has been years in his life and he never does the same voices that he did the first time. Oh well. What to say......more