I listen to the whole series, but will only write a review for this one. I purchased this series to listen to Kevin Pierce’s country bumpkin way of reading books. Very soothing and entertaining. That said, when he is the master of EMP and preppers story telling for some reason. It really speaks to how popular this mindset is in rural and southern states. That being said the author is a new prepper that must live in a Southern state. He drops lots of civil war references and all of the story takes place in Southern states. People down south seem to be obsessed with the civil war, I guess it is a defeat they just can’t get over. People don’t talk about that up North or do reenactments like they do down South. The story is kept simple for the most part, no complexity or explanations on why only those two location had nation relevance. He says that 90% of the US population was lost, but even with that, there would still be 30 – 40 million and that is a lot of people. Those two locations would not be the focus of the US. Like most preppers he is fearful of the government and never explains what happened to all the U.S population. There would be people or bodies of people everywhere, and resources would not be that limited. The dialog between characters is simple and repetitively. Subordinates are talked down to, somewhat comically, even in different organizations. Very black and white, the criminals are criminals and the good guys are clearly the good guys. In real life, things are rarely that simple and few people have pure evil or altruistic ideas. That author also seems to be an old baby boomer by the way he always identify his characters by race, like that is the primary characteristic that defines them in his mind. Overall, it lacks the complexity to keep my interest, but Kevin was very good.