Military Apocalyptic Fiction

In the aftermath of the pandemic, humanity is on the cusp of extinction as the mutant undead sweep throughout the world. The deadly virus has created a new predator that is far more intelligent and ruthless than anything mankind has ever faced. And the threat from the alphas is increasing as they evolve. Epidemiologist Selene Munroe comes up with a daring solution for gaining a foothold against the deadly virus, but will it be enough to save the human race before it’s too late? On another front, CIA operative Will Reisner and his team need to join forces with an unlikely ally to prevent ...

The best-selling Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith first introduced listeners to a world ravaged by an engineered virus that turned men into monsters. Humanity's only hope was not a cure, but another bioweapon. When deployed it killed 90 percent of the infected, but the remaining 10 percent transformed into even more terrifying creatures called Variants. Here's a collection of Extinction Cycle short stories that explore the human spirit and the fight for survival in the face of overwhelming odds from some of the leading voices in the post-apocalyptic genre.

A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Novel The fight for survival isn’t over—it’s only just begun. Blake Sullivan and his makeshift family have reclaimed the compound, but victory comes at a cost. Supplies are dwindling, tensions are high, and the weight of leadership rests heavy on his shoulders. They may have won the battle, but the war for their future is far from over. As the group struggles to build a sustainable life, new challenges emerge. Reinforcing the compound, forging alliances with neighboring survivors, and securing enough food to make it through the coming seasons are only the ...

Microbiologist Nora Medina knows something is wrong when she gets yanked off a Hawaiian beach and onto her ex-husband's government jet. Her marriage to Deacan Devlin McDougall had taught her plenty about adrenaline, and something more than their unfinished business that has brought the maddeningly sexy Scot back into her life.

John Eric Carver and Shrek are a retired Navy SEAL war dog team, now living in the mountains outside of San Diego. Both man and dog thought their life was now settled, finding peace on the 40-acre ranch they had moved to. But life, and a mutated virus, changed all that.

In Stolen Treasure, the final book in the best selling Collapsing World series, Specialist Clark and Emma know that their time is running out as they fight against the onslaught of a war in an attempt to save the lives of Jack, Lucy and Penny. But they are not the only ones fighting for survival; David and Tasha have finally escaped the destruction and chaos of Birmingham, and find themselves working with two other families caught up in the same tragedy. Little do they know that their newfound relationship with the Tiller and Burrows families might actually put them into more danger. Stolen...

The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. However, they happened to arrive after a mutated plague wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. You know - your standard apocalypse. The Krakau’s first impulse was to turn around and go home. (After all, it’s hard to have diplomatic relations with mindless savages who eat your diplomats.) Their second impulse was to try to fix us.

When the bonds of survival are tested, only the strongest threads hold. The journey to safety grows more perilous as Abby, Blake, and their makeshift family inch closer to their destination. In Fraying Bonds, the second installment of this gripping post-apocalyptic series, the world is darker, more dangerous, and full of unexpected challenges. The group faces new trials: a dwindling fuel supply, unsettling encounters with desperate strangers, and the looming question of whether the promised refuge will be all they hope for—or a fight they can’t afford to lose. While Blake wrestles with ...

The world is suddenly thrown into chaos as a research project is sabotaged and the dead come alive to feast on the living - it seems like an old story, doesn’t it? The Apocalypse Crusade is not that book. You are not suddenly thrust into a world gone mad. Instead, you get front-row seats to how the sh-t went down. In real time you are witness to the agony and the horror…and the terrible stupidity that made it all possible.

Jack and Lucy were unescorted minors, traveling alone through the Atlanta airport, when terrorists attacked the city. The teens are resourceful, but that will only get them so far. Paired with a group of survivors, they face exposure to radiation, being burned to death, or being trapped forever in the catacombs of the world’s busiest airport. Not knowing if his children are alive or dead, the teen’s father, David, fights the weight of uncertainty, as he struggles with the consequences from the greater attack happening all around America. Desperate to know the fate of his children, ...

Jay is a prisoner at a government mandated labor camp in the post war world, and is willing to risk his life in order to escape. Nothing can be worse than his current reality of working for no pay and choking down the slop they call food. The day before his big escape, Jay is handed an envelope and told to report to headquarters. It turns out he's been selected to participate in the Rare Bull Program (RBP), as he's one of the country's few surviving fertile males. The program is in its infancy, and it's his only way out of the camps. His entire life changes in an instant, as he puts on the ...

A rogue Russian nuke sails toward the harbors of Los Angeles in the hull of a ramshackle sailboat. Without destroying a single building, the bomb shatters the latticework of the American dream, toppling one piece of the economy after another. A group of Special Forces veterans and their prepper friends scramble for survival in a worldwide catastrophe so psychologically disruptive they are left questioning everything they ever believed to be true.

Apocalypse in the Homeland continues the story that tells how John Harris leads a group of survivors through the chaos of a country that has fallen apart. The US president and a coalition of third world leaders have launched a major nuclear and EMP attack on all of the major powers and killed over 100 million Americans. The USA is in chaos with criminals and thugs attacking innocent citizens, while John and his team fight the corrupt Department of Homeland Security and the president. John leads the people from a major part of the old USA and most of the remaining US military in building a ...

5 stars! "This book is a refreshing change for post-apocalyptic narratives." 5 stars! "So good it kept me from my housework." Two broken souls. One fragile thread of connection. Can trust heal the wounds of the past? Abigail Winters has spent her life picking up the pieces. A single mother raising her baby, Danny, after the death of her soldier boyfriend, Abby finds strength in the small family she’s built: a kind-hearted baker who feels like a surrogate father and a community she gives back to in every way she can. She’s always believed in seeing the good in people—even when it feels...

Contains books 1-3 of The Forgotten. Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the Pilgrim, and he expects to die on the Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him. That's the way things are on a generation starship centuries from home. He's never questioned it. Access points to the ship's controls are sealed, the systems that guide her automated and out of reach. Until a malfunction forces his engineer wife to the edge of the habitable zone to inspect the damage. Until she contacts him, breathless, to tell him she found a body, and it doesn't belong to anyone on board.

After Chinese missiles destroy Camp David, the Lightspeed organization is in shambles. Self-appointed president Walter Lightspeed is dead and he’s taken the secrets of his wireless power grid with him. After a brief respite from the apocalypse, America has been thrown back into the dark. China is taking advantage of the chaos, sending covert teams into America to target those likely to resist their plan to annex America. Conor and Ricardo are on that list, but they have been targeted before and they won’t go down without a fight.

All Liam Avione ever wanted was to be a Deathbringer. Almost twenty years old now, he’s approaching the last six months of the decade-long training program, hopeful for his future as a protector of the Universe. One, slight problem: he’s got a genetic defect that he’s been keeping a secret. But as the training intensifies, so do his symptoms. Which are really hard to hide when they cause him to puke, pass out, and have a seizure in front of the training cadre.

All Nathan Grant wanted was solitude. After being baptized in the blood rite of combat and spending more than a decade knee deep in gore, two events that cost him his marriage, Nathan Grant wanted to be as far away from civilization as he could be. Then the world ended. Faced with the harsh reality of a world now populated with psychotic cannibals, Grant did what he does best – stay at his remote cabin and drink a few beers while watching the world melt down. His way of thinking was let it happen as long as it happened far away from him. However, fate had different plans. Dropped into ...

A Dying Earth. A New World. A Fight for Survival. Earth is collapsing—its air poisoned, its lands scorched, its oceans rising. With extinction looming, humanity’s last hope lies light-years away on an uncharted alien planet. Thousands of desperate colonists take the leap into the unknown, risking everything for a second chance. But survival won’t come easy. Captain Brian “Finn” Finnegan leads the expedition, only to find a world as ruthless as the one they left behind. Savage predators, treacherous terrain, and a planet that seems determined to expel its new inhabitants. But ...

Monsters, saviors, and weapons - the Vanguard don't care what they're called. All that matters is that they answer the call when people cry out in need. The core worlds of the Roma Union are in the line of fire. Untouched by war for hundreds of years, they've become used to peace. The Maurakians, bearing new technology, can go wherever they want; with little warning, the blanket of safety that humanity has created is ripped away.