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Emp: Chemical Warfare: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller
Paperback
Series: After the Emp, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 6 2026
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.69
Height: 0.69 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Sam Menfries survived the first winter. He survived the trenches that cut two hundred miles across the frozen plains. He even survived the day his own side reached into the drawer and opened the drums.
But he could not survive it clean.
When the Union rolls the first cloud east and the wind turns on the men who made it, Sam does the one thing no soldier is supposed to do. He walks into the gas. Unarmed. Bare-faced. Toward the enemy his own side is killing.
What he finds on the other side of the wire is not the monster the woodcuts promised. It is a city that eats. Children with slates. A dying old lord who does cold arithmetic with a warm face. And a daughter who has spent her whole life refusing to be priced.
Now Sam is the most valuable prisoner in the war. He knows how the enemy thinks. He knows how they built the cloud. And he has to decide whether to teach a losing people how to survive a winning one, even when the hunters are the men he stood beside for two years.
Because when an army breaks, a people does not. It goes into the tree lines. Into the root cellars. Into the little war with no front, where every farmhouse is a question with a wrong answer, and loyalty is the one ground no cloud can take.
From the author who asked how long civilization lasts after the lights go out comes a darker question. What does winning cost the winner? What does a good man become when there is no clean side left to stand on?
This is a story about gas, and occupation, and the line human beings drew for themselves a hundred years ago and swore never to cross again. It is about the terrible arithmetic of the drawer, the debt that never balances, and the one small thing that keeps a broken world turning.
You keep going because someone winds you.
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