A well crafted tale of an EMP disaster.

Starting in an airport in Pittsburgh when all electronics suddenly fail and a plane crashes into the terminal, throwing everything into chaos. Our main characters meet when Lily, a seven year old girl, reaches out to Anna to help her daddy, Mark, who has been trapped by falling ceiling debris.
Anna manages to get Mark out and so begins their epic journey together.
They soon determine a widespread EMP has occurred and in the absence of any working transport or communications, and with society on the verge of collapsing around them, They embark on a thousand mile hike along back woods trails to get to Maine, where Mark hopes to find his wife will have taken shelter in a rural cabin owned by the family.

Anna is an experienced emergency room doctor, who has regularly worked overseas for MSF and can keep a cool head in a crisis. Mark is an engineer and a good man who is desperate to reunite his family.
Their journey is fraught with trials, both physical and emotional.. and the bond they form along away brings its own complications.
There's occasional danger at the hands of other people, but it's not a story filled with gratuitous violence like some others in the genre.
A very good story, well written, wonderfully narrated and it's even left open for a possible sequel.
I for one would be keen to know what happens next...

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