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Genesis

Arisen, Book 0.5

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By: Michael Stephen Fuchs
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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Tucked away in a high-tech Tactical Operations Center, inside an isolated safehouse in the Horn of Africa, sits Agency analyst Zack Altringham.

He is Kenyan-born, Princeton-educated, badly burnt-out—and condemned by his language and cultural skills to a lifetime of fighting America's shadow counter-terror wars. But when another mystery epidemic breaks out, terrifyingly quickly it reaches a tipping point and chaos descends—and Zack and his team (including two former Team Six SEALs) are trapped between the millstones of the sick and the dying on one side, and heavily armed militias on the other. Soon their "safe" house is in flames, and their only remaining option is to get in their up-armored SUV and try to escape the imploding gravity well of the city, to the safety of the American military base in Djibouti. But by then, will there be anywhere safe left on Earth to escape to?

©2014 Michael Stephen Fuchs (P)2014 Podium Audio Horror Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Scary Fiction Africa Zombie
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If you like this kind of thing (and I have discovered that I do) then you'll like this. Good, fast paced zombie action seen through the eyes of a Special Ops team with excellent narration from RC Bray. This short book gives the background to the main "Arisen" series and can be used as a good taster.

However, it's worth considering not reading this one first. I read it between books 5 and 6 as an example and I would suggest it's better this way as the back story means more by then. From other reviews it seems this does stand alone but I genuinely enjoyed going back to the story that until then had just been hinted at.

Your choice of course, but either way it's a credit well spent.

Good prequel, read it any time!

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Having read all the Arisen books I was interested to see how this solo effort by Fuchs would fit in and workout. As usual the performance by RC was impeccable, though a few of his accents sounded a bit strange, but what the heck, he is so good at what he does. The story is pretty lean and well written with good momentum. It gives the background to the ZA and fits in well with the storyline in book 7. The book is so filmic and has such a strong visual aspect to its narritive that I would not be surprised if its snapped up by a film company. A screenplay would fall out of this story with few problems.

Great story.

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Set near the start of ZA, this is another great book in Arisen series. Although it's a stand alone story and yes can be read at any point.

I listen to it after book 7 as somethings that where stated and others that were hinted near end of book 7. Made me believe it may tie in with what coming in next few books.

R. C Bray still one of the best Narrator's in the business

Body shot in a Zombie fight. ZA Horn of Africa

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I very much enjoyed this book, a good start to a zombie series. very much worth a listen

great zombie book!

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This piece of work is very well researched and vividly written. I really enjoyed it, in part because the writer was not afraid of using the 'z' word.

Very details, really enjoyable

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