First, I will say anything this author does you can expect the best and KP brings the story and characters alive. The details of LA being nucked and the pain and death of persons in the nuked area and outside was much better and showed the author had really research on what would happen to the people. The characters are four friends in college and their adventures in trying to survive and what had to deal with and people who was alive that had been deformed from the radiation and thugs who was out to survive by any means and were slowly dieing from the radiation and finally killed by the four students who they were trying to get to kill and rob. You meet Danny a man who the world had collapsed before the nukes fell and he was just trying to survive with his dog. To me this man was the most interesting person because as you listen you learn more and more about him and how far he will go to save his dog.
I highly recommend this series of books and if you read or listen to any of Tom Abraham look for them and try them i can guarantee you like what you hear and read.