Without Warning, John Birmingham
Without Warning, John Birmingham
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Without Warning

Author: John Birmingham

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 17 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2009

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, as the world waits for war, a mileshigh energy wave cordons a vast area from southern Canada to northern Mexico. In a moment, 99 percent of the U.S. population has been wiped from the face of the earth. To fill the vacuum, heroes rise to meet the unimaginable challenges of the city of Seattle: James Kipper, chief engineer of the city of Seattle and Caitlin Monroe are on the trail of a Muslim fanatic ready to take advantage of what becomes known as The Disappearance, while General Tusk Musso and Admiral James Ritchie try desperately to keep the peace in a world gone mad with fear.

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 Annmarie

Take one part clumsier Tom Clancy, add one part S.M. Stirling, shake it up with an anti-Muslim bias, and you get this 2009 novel by an Aussie. Set just days prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it's an apocalyptic read, full of military exploits. A strange inexplicable energy wave abruptly covers mos......more

Goodreads review by Graeme

I found the premise interesting. An 'inexplicable,' energy wave obliterates most of the continental US. Of course, Australia then becomes one of the most important countries in the world - Crikey! As we inherit a sizable chunk of the US refugees and US Navy. The book is of course much more than this,......more

Goodreads review by Mark

How many times have you read a story or seen a film where all seems to be lost until the USA steps in to help? I’m thinking Tom Clancy’s novels, Armageddon, Independence Day, films about World War 2 perhaps even Team America: World Police and so on. Much of this is because the books and films are wri......more

Goodreads review by Roger

Described as a work of "alternate fiction", John Birmingham's "Without Warning" falls just inside the realm of science fiction, barely meeting that category description because of a deadly and unknown phenomenon that has scientists baffled. A techno/political/military thriller in the best tradition o......more

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