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Surviving the Evacuation, Book 1: London

By: Frank Tayell
Narrated by: Tim Bruce
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The outbreak began in New York. Soon it had spread to the rest of the world. People were attacked and infected, and they died. Then they came back. Nowhere is safe from the undead.

As anarchy and civil war took grip across the globe, Britain was quarantined. The press was nationalized. Martial law, curfews, and rationing were implemented. It wasn't enough. An evacuation was planned.

Bill Wright broke his leg on the day of the outbreak. Unable to join the evacuation, he watched from his window as the streets filled with refugees, he watched as the streets emptied once more. He watched as they filled up again, this time with the undead.

He is trapped. He is alone. He is running out of food and water. He knows that to reach the safety of the enclaves, he will have to venture out into the wasteland that once was England. On that journey he will ultimately discover the horrific truth about the outbreak, a decades-old conspiracy, and his unwitting part in it.

This is the first volume of his journal.

©2013 Frank Tayell (P)2015 Frank Tayell Horror Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction Scary Zombie

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This is not for everyone, if you need to have your zombie apocalypse books list every make of gun and ammunition each time a shot is fired, or you need to have a lead character who's been preparing for the end of the world all their life and happens to have a bunker in their garden then move on. If you fancy a book that shows the end of the world from the perspective of a normal guy in a flat in London and how he copes with the end of the world and what to do next. It is faced paced and you will finish it in no time as it was hard to put down until the end!

London, Zombies and the start of great series

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Read the book and then listened to the audiobook version. Both as good as eachother.

Awsome

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loved every moment of it ,it depicts a possible realisticall future,shows the true face of human nature,the macabrity thesefishness the urge for survivall.sadly is too short.could honestly say this could even be considered a walktrough ???

captivating

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Cannot recommend enough. Brilliant book, fantastic narration. The best zombie book on the market. The series as a whole is really good, well paced and exiting.

Fantastic

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This is the only contemporary apocalyptic story that can compete with the BBC's The Survivors, written by Matt Fitton, et al. Like Survivors, this story deals with ordinary folks caught up in devastating events. There is a certain amount of violence, some of it gratuitous, but the story is predominantly about the narrator's battle to overcome his injuries, confusion, and sense of loss.

I'm pleased to say that few guns are mentioned. There is no machismo: the hero, if that's the right world, spends the first half of the book cowering in his house, wondering when he's going to be rescued. Like The Walking Dead, in this story it's fairly clear that the zombies, grim as they are, are not really the greatest threat to survivors -- other people are.

Another reviewer mentioned Day of the Triffids, and there is a certain similarity, to be fair. As a plot device, there's not a huge difference between zombies and predatory vegetation. I guess if you liked Triffids (and weren't just forced to read it at school) you'll like this as well. A better comparison, I think, is Mattheson' s I Am Legend. Both books describe well the tedium and loneliness of day-to-day survival as the last (possibly) person alive.

If you like your apocalypses to be dominated by gun-toting, right-wing sociopaths, as portrayed in the appalling After It Happened series, you probably won't get on with this book. You have to care what real people think.

At last -- a zombie apocalypse without guns

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Actually much better than I was expecting. Follows the story of a British politician with a broken leg as he struggles to survive after the zombie apocalypse. Looks at the very real and the political.
An interesting slant on this genre.
However, although I was interested in the character, I would not say I was emotionally involved. And I can’t say I’d be willing to read the 10 sequels to this book.

Not bad at all

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I'm more into the action based zombie stories, Arisen type stuff, however this was a bit more I am legend. I liked it. Slow moving and more what you expect if it happened for real. I will get the next book.

Surprisingly good

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Quite a calm storey. Not the usual zombie kill fest. Interesting twists along the way. Looking forward to book 2.

Enjoyable storey, good narrator

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A zombie story told from the perspective of an ordinary Englishman,
A must listen for anyone who has ever wondered. 'What would I do?'

Refreshingly different

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I'm not normally a fan of zombie books but this one was different.
I liked how it was done in format of a journal and unlike alot of zombie apocalypse books it dose not have or need blood and guts.

Zombie apocalypse without blood and guts

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