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  • The End Time Saga, Book 1
  • By: Daniel Greene
  • Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
  • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (87 ratings)
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End Time

By: Daniel Greene
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
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Summary

The protests in front of the embassy aren't what they seem....

In the dark, primal jungles of the Congo Basin, something is ravaging the local population. When protests turn violent in front of the US embassy in Kinshasa, only the foreign policy experts paid attention. Civil war erupts, and people rip each other apart in the streets of the African capital.

To avert disaster and preserve its self-image, an overwhelmed State Department dispatches a team of elite counterterrorism agents to bring their besieged people back alive. Mark Steele, a young agent within the division, and his team of gritty operatives are used to trudging through the worst society has to offer, all while operating from the shadows. But Steele's team is plunging headlong into a maelstrom of death so much worse than rebels in the streets.

A highly contagious microbe is spreading unchecked, killing everyone in its wake only to bring them back again as the ravenous undead. Only a lone CDC virologist understands the extent of the outbreak at hand. He cowers among the embassy staff praying for extraction from the hands of death, fearing his part to play in the epidemic. 

Follow this harrowing tale of survival, duty, love and horror as the living dead bring the world to its knees. The first installment of an epic series, End Time starts as a slow burn that turns into a breakneck-paced struggle for survival. Greene does an excellent job of depicting individual stories within the larger scope of the global epidemic. Enter the End Time.

©2018 Daniel Greene (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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End Time is Only the Beginning!

So you've finished the Arisen series or maybe Mountain Man and fancy some more zombie horror. Well, life wouldn't be what it is without at least a small zombie horde trudging through your imagination would it? If this is where you find yourself then maybe adding a little Steele into your life isn't a bad approach. He's tough, uncompromising and probably just the kind of guy you'd want to have by your side when the people around you decide they want to chew your arms off. He's a counter-terrorism agent sent into Africa to retrieve among others an expert virologist who is among the first to grasp the magnitude of the events unfolding. He's joined in the story by some other strong characters but don't get too attached to anyone because the body count in this one is high. There are strong horror scenes from the start in what is a very fast-paced and action-packed audiobook that is read well.

Judging from this first volume it's not going to be a genre-defining series nor is it going to deliver a whole new take on a zombie apocalypse. However, it delivers a lot of action centered around some strong characters and will be a good read for anyone who simply can't get enough zombies into their life. I enjoyed the way it threw me straight into the mix and kept the action coming. I'll certainly be following this one.

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Could have been great

I just wish men would stop writing fantasy women who are as beautiful as they are stupid. The heroine Gwen was a very two dimensional character with no real redeeming features. In fact in real life I would have strangled her before the book was half way through.

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So much Freedom

If anyone is in doubt, this author is a proud American. So proud. So very proud. He eats Freedom for breakfast and drinks Honour instead of coffee. He gets taken to the shops on the back of his Bald Eagle. He owns a gun store on the side and gives guns away free to veterans. He eats Sacrifice for dinner and sleeps in his sleeping bag made of American flags and more Freedom. He has all the Freedom. So much Freedom.

He makes sure that the characters in his books strive to be as American as him if not more, and he makes sure that the reader knows this. In every paragraph, lurking around every storyline there is so much Freedom and Honour and Sacrifice and Freedom. And the only reason his characters are like this is because they’re true Americans and they love their country because it has so much Freedom and Honour and Sacrifice. But mostly Sacrifice. Or Freedom. It might be Freedom actually. Although there’s a lot of Honour flying around too.
And don’t forget the American who isn’t really American because his name is Ahmed and we all know that means he must be a bad guy. And he wants to take Steele’s girl away from him-I *knew* he was a bad guy! He’s such a bad guy going after Steel’s girl -he’s *definitely* a terrorist and a traitor… and it’s all because his name is Ahmed! Don’t trust those guys called Ahmed, they don’t have any Honour or Sacrifice or Freedom…
I really wish this was a joke and the whole thing was a piss take but it’s not. This is for real. The reader did what he could with the material and his accents made me laugh (in a good way) but he didn’t have much to work with. I’ve given it 1 star because you can’t give it zero stars

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Oh dear - dreadful!

Comparisons to Mountain Man and Arisen are hopelessly misplaced - this is badly written, sexist and racist drivel. The book is an outpouring of praise to gung-ho, macho, racist and sexist idiots let loose with guns.

Steele is an idiot, incompetent and uncaring and his behaviour after he reaches his house is ridiculous. Gwen isn’t much better. The other characters are also deeply unsympathetic.

Meanwhile, the writer misuses adjectives and adverbs with the abandon of an over-excited twelve year old and several sections are very repetitive. The writing is so awful and unintentionally hilarious, that I actually laughed out loud at several points

The narrator also isn’t very good and I was very uncomfortable with his attempts at Black African and other non-white, non-US accents that - to me - smacked of racism, especially given these characters’ prejudiced portrayal.

I did like the fact that everyone refuses to accept the zombie outbreak for what it is until it is pretty much too late to do anything to save the world! Should the ZA ever happen, I can imagine that this failure to accept the situation would be reality. However, nothing could save this from being a truly terrible book.

I am not sure why I continued with this, except for the fact that it was so bad, it was almost compulsive listening!

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Ok, though a lot of silly patriotic guff too

The storyline is quite good and exciting, although none of the characters are developed much. It does have a lot of weird patriotic stuff that means nothing and sounds silly to non-Americans, and probably any wise Americans too.

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Steel! No, just no.

The hero is called Steel. Do I have to say anymore? He is so generic it's funny, unintentionally funny. The actual story ain't half bad, I just couldn't stand the cringe that is Steel.

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Post-Apocalyptic Military Fan-fiction

It felt like the author idolises anything vaguely military, and disdains everything else. Avoid.

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Could have been so much better

Started off promisingly enough but as the story progressed the lead character became more and more unhinged to the point of hysteria.
How this guy was supposed to be an elite counter terrorism agent eluded me. And yes - we get it - he’s a proud American from the only country in the world that matters.
His behaviour towards his girlfriend was controlling, his antagonism to anyone female or of different ethnicity was completely racist and stereotypical.
Honestly began to feel as if the second part of the book was written by a bot it was so bad.
There’s lots of great audiobooks out there about zombies but this isn’t one of them.

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Above average Zombie Apocalypse novel

This was the first Daniel Greene novel I've read, and I found it thoroughly enjoyable. In some ways it is a standard ZA novel with a strange virus which starts in Africa and then spreads across the world, but it is done really well and the as the first team return from Africa it comes as quite a shock to find the infection has already reached the US. The story is told from different points of view and each one helps build the story layer by layer. There is a good mix of the 'professional' soldier/agent who seem able to manage everything easily and your run of the mill citizen who is simply scared and just trying to survive. There is also a relatively brief section showing how political bureaucracy is simply unable to cope with this kind of emergency. After such a solid start it will be good to see how the story develops in book 2
The narrator did a good job of keeping the reader's attention and keeping the pace of the story moving along.

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does what it says on the tin

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this, bit confusing at first but worth sticking with. a different working and perspective on a zombie type virus end of days.

listening again and it's as good second time around

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