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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: "The Remaining (The Remaining, 1)" by D. J. Molles
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:46:50 -0500
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"The Remaining (The Remaining, 1)" by D. J. Molles
    https://www.amazon.com/Remaining-D-J-Molles/dp/0316404152/

Book number one of a six book apocalyptic science fiction series.  There 
are another two series in the same universe with the main character.  I 
read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Orbit in 2014 
that I purchased new in 2014 from Amazon.  There is also a novella that 
prequels the series in the book that I read.  I am reading the second 
book in the series now and have ordered the third book in the series.

Captain Lee Harden of the US Army is a member of the US Special Forces. 
His duty is to live in his remote US Army built home with a steel and 
lead concrete bunker underneath it.  Any time the US government gets 
nervous, he goes down into his bunker with his dog and locks the vault 
door.  He then talks with his supervisor daily over the internet until 
released by his supervisor to leave the bunker.  His duty is to stay in 
the bunker during any event and come out thirty days after he has zero 
contact with his supervisor.  Then it is his duty to find groups of 
people to restore order in his portion of the USA.

Then one day, Captain Harden has been sitting in his bunker for a couple 
of weeks and his supervisor does not call.  A plague has been sweeping 
the planet and things are getting more dire by the day.  Apparently the 
infected do not die but their brains are mostly wiped out.  Zombies.  A 
A month later, Captain Harden and his dog emerge from their bunker to 
find a total disaster with infected roaming the countryside.

The author has a website at:
    https://djmolles.com/blog/the-remaining-universe-reading-order

My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.5 out of 5 stars (4,564 reviews)

Lynn