In New York, Walt Lawson is about to lose his girlfriend Vanessa. In Los Angeles, Raymond and Mia James are about to lose their house. Within days, none of it will matter.
When Vanessa dies of the flu, Walt is devastated. But she isn’t the last. The virus quickly kills billions, reducing New York to an open grave and LA to a chaotic wilderness of violence and fires. As Raymond and Mia hole up in … hole up in an abandoned mansion, where they learn to function without electricity, running water, or neighbors, Walt begins an existential walk to LA, where Vanessa had planned to move when she left him. He expects to die along the way.
Months later, a massive vessel appears above Santa Monica Bay. Walt is attacked by a crablike monstrosity in a mountain stream. The virus that ended humanity wasn’t created by humans. It was inflicted from outside. The colonists who sent it are ready to finish the job — and Earth’s survivors may be too few and too weak to resist.
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Do you like The Stand by Stephen King? How about Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon? And H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds? If you like those titles and other books like them, you will love this book.
This book is a solid piece of post-apocalypse fiction. It is well-written and well-crafted. The main characters are wonderful, real-world depictions …
This is a book that I highly recommend for Science Fiction fans who enjoy reading end of the world stories. This is a doozy. Imagine facing a plague followed by alien invasion! Wow. I am now reading the second book of the series, but this is the first book in the series and I really did enjoy it. There were many parts where it was hard to put it …
Breakers is book 1 of an 8 book series is a bit of a cross of The Road and The War of the Worlds. You start the book with the apocalypse killing off folks and watch as the world slowly ends, and then it takes a turn for the worse when the aliens appear.
The book can work as a stand alone story, but you will want to continue reading the series to …
I downloaded this book some time ago, but started it shortly after the beginning of
Covid-19. I had no idea what the story was about so it was actually quite exciting
and scary too. Certainly worth a read!
Could have been a little longer
I liked the 1 book so much, I bought the whole series.
Breakers The Complete Series, Edward W. Robertson, is a well written set of books, with some of the most interesting people in it, doing some very interesting things.
First of all… 984 pages! It’s like getting to live at Disneyland! The hardest part of reading Sci-Fi is finding plausible scenarios. Writers don’t have to create characters with histories and chains of events to make a good story; they have to do all that in a believable environment that they have to create from nothing… literally nothing! …