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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: "Remaining: Refugees (The Remaining)" by D. J. Molles
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:43:31 -0500
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"Remaining: Refugees (The Remaining)" by D. J. Molles
    https://www.amazon.com/Remaining-Refugees-D-J-Molles/dp/0356503496/

Book number three of a six book apocalyptic science fiction series. 
There is another 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 2025 from Amazon.  I have the fourth through the 
sixth books 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 
month later, Captain Harden and his dog emerge from their bunker to find 
a total disaster with infected roaming the countryside.

Captain Harden’s home and bunker were burned out after everything to eat 
or shoot was stolen by a gang of bad guys.  But he has a secret, he has 
ten bunkers built by the U.S. Army strategically located around the 
state.  And only he can open the bunkers.  But the bad guys are chasing 
Captain Harden to get the rest of the food and ammo from him.  And 
nobody trusts anybody.

Captain Harden has taken command of a camp of survivors in South 
Carolina due to his caches of food, ammo, guns, clothing, etc.  They are 
steadily cleaning out the nearby small towns.  But hordes of infected 
are coming from the North to South Carolina.  And not everyone in the 
camp agrees with his decisions.

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

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,001 reviews)

Lynn