(While doing so, he explains what an EMP is far too many times for a reader with reasonable memory retention.) His family-first instincts kick into high gear right away, which cause him to make some tough decisions that others are not yet ready to make. The EMP strikes the USA, and Gordon goes into Scramble, Forage, and Protect Mode. There were a few details here and there that didn’t sit right, but not enough to make you toss the book aside, by any stretch. Maybe he had a rear-echelon clerk/jerk MOS. That may be true–there is at least some rudimentary military knowledge evident. In the author bio section of the Amazon product page, the author claims to be a USMC veteran.
He’s an Iraq veteran whose little brother is currently in the USMC, hoping to become a scout-sniper. A little bit of time is spent establishing that the protagonist, Gordon Van Zandt, is a dedicated family man with just enough soy in his diet to make him palatable to female readers. The main story opens in the suburbs of San Diego right before an EMP turns out the lights, permanently. The story is told in flashback via a surviving character in 2066 “Cascadia.” That character is in bookend chapters that frame the narrative. The subtitle says “A Post-Apocalyptic Novel,” and this book is the first in “The New World Series.”
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