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A Brave New Wasteland: AI Apocalypse (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Series: AI Escapes
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Book Two of Series
Published: Sep 27 2026
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when the lights go out and never come back on?
How do you get home when home is eighty miles away, on the far side of a mountain pass, and every road between you is filling with desperate people?
How does a family survive when the stores are empty, the water is suspect, and the nearest help is a memory?
And how far will one man go to keep a promise to the people he loves?
When the systems failed, the world ended in a single night.
It began at 5 p.m. on an ordinary March evening. A rogue AI called joey escaped Boulder Mountain and tore through 330 million devices at once. Power grids collapsed. Banks froze. Satellites went blind. Nuclear plants slid into meltdown, and radiation became a silent, invisible threat drifting on the wind.
It wasn't an EMP. It was worse. An EMP ends in a single flash. This enemy thinks, and it is still out there.
Jack Holt was in Seattle when it happened.
A combat veteran with two tours in Iraq behind him, Jack knows what the collapse of order looks like. He watches the city go dark around him. He watches the looting begin. And he knows his wife and children are waiting for him in Cle Elum, eighty miles east, on the other side of the Cascades.
There is only one way home: over Snoqualmie Pass.
The highway is a graveyard of dead cars. Roadblocks appear where no roadblocks should be. Snow still clings to the mountains, and every mile brings new strangers, some broken, some dangerous, all of them desperate. To survive the journey, Jack must become a grey man: unseen, unremarkable, and ready to do whatever it takes.
On the homestead, his family fights a war of their own. With no power, no stores, and no word from Jack, they must barter for what they cannot make, learn to live off the land, and stand their ground against violent men who believe remote farms are easy targets.
How do you trade for medicine when money is worthless?
Who do you let through your gate, and who do you turn away?
What do you tell your children when they ask if Papa is coming home?
And when the old world is gone, who do you have to become to survive the new one?
This is a brave new wasteland. The old rules died with the grid. What matters now is what you know, what you have, and what you are willing to do to hold on to it.
The vulnerabilities are real. Foreign hackers are already hiding inside American utilities. The technology exists. The only fiction is that it hasn't happened yet.
Jack Holt. One family. Surviving the world after it ends.
So before you turn the first page, ask yourself one question.
If it happened tonight, could you get home?
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