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Emp: The Rogue Warrior: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller
Paperback
Series: Rogue Warrior, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.52
Height: 0.62 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Nine days after an EMP turns America dark, Oliver Merchant and the woman he loves are ambushed on a lonely county road by a gang calling themselves The Pirates. Their leader, Alexander Kitchen, holds Oliver down and carves his face beyond recognition with a boning knife. Then he puts a .45 through Oliver's gut and leaves him in a farmyard to die slow.
Oliver doesn't die.
Alone, gut-shot, and half-blind, he sews his own face together with fishing line and drags himself back from the edge. He kills his first Pirate with a sharpened rock while the man sleeps. He takes the dead man's skull mask, his 1911, his rifle. And he starts a list.
What follows is a brutal seven-month hunt across a dead country. Oliver will burn a rail yard to the ground, free children from a chain-link pen, and cut his way through The Pirates one man at a time. Along the way he'll find a widow and her eight-year-old daughter, and discover that having something left to lose is the most dangerous thing of all.
But Kitchen isn't building a gang. He's building an empire. And the final reckoning is coming on a train doing thirty-five miles an hour, with a knife, in the dark.
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