Extinction Level Event: Book One

The first book to a highly charged, character-driven virus apocalypse series with a cult following.Coastal Wilmington, North Carolina stands at the crosshairs. The economy struggles. A flu pandemic spreads. Authorities assert crazies popping up all over town are on a new designer street drug akin to bath salts. But everyone's calling them "zombies." The kind that runs and bites, but feels no pain. And then there are the vaccinated dogs who turn vicious and frothing at the mouth. What's really going on? A titan cast of civilian Millennials and war vet GenXers experience their world of normalcy infiltrated. The clock ticks over five days. Things grow weirder without explanation from the government or media. Until the end of the week when the SHTF at the start of the real "zombie" apocalypse. For former special ops Staff Sergeant Peter Sullivan, it's a good thing. War is what he does best. Life is what he sucks at. But for doctoral candidate Phebe Marcelino, it's a descent into kill or be killed. Ex-US Army 75th Regiment Rangers, a wounded warrior Delta sniper, and Marines-turned-cops band together. The combat is like nothing they have seen before. And their own military never tried to kill them in the past. Only their training and team work can get them out of the hot zone.The civilians never shot guns before. Phebe's survival instinct is all she has. You never know what you're made of until tested. EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT, the love child of Contagion and Black Hawk Down meets 28 Weeks Later at a Monty Python festival.Warnings: Adult language, gritty military banter humor, and a lack of Political Correctness. Learn more at www.kjjonesing.com.

Author: K.J. Jones

Publisher: Independently published

Publication Date: January 18, 2020

Number of Pages: 294 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1660727472

ISBN-13: 9781660727476