I just greedily devoured the five Alex Fletcher books by Steven Konkoly. Ooh-rah! I am ready to stockpile food and water and toilet paper. In the first book, The Jakarta Pandemic, Alex struggles through PTSD to save his family from the collapse of American society. His innate paranoia kicks into insane levels, but Konkoly makes the plot eerily realistic. Just how do you survive a contagious virus that triggers mass hysteria and a loss of infrastructure? I’m thinking a chocolate stash…..

Konkoly draws upon his military experience for amazing realism in The Perseid Collapse, an “event” that forms the basis for the final four books of the Alex Fletcher series. This event crumbles the United States, which had barely recovered from the pandemic of a few years before. Alex is better prepared this time but the stakes are higher. The event, which many speculate is an EMP, or asteroid, leads to a collapse of all the major cities, electronics failure, and a flood of refugees. Alex is on a mission to rescue his son from Boston, getting trapped between hastily assembled marines and militias.
The final three books remind me of Tom Clancy’s or Robert Ludlum’s style in their complexity and global focus, with heroic characters giving their all as the world changes mightily after the collapse of the US. And Alex continues his single-minded focus on saving his family and friends. Konkoly creates a well-developed character in Alex Fletcher, along with a wide cast of supporting folks. An interesting theme in these books is the conflict between “government conspiracy” folks and the military. I don’t know how such an apocalypse might fall out (pun intended), but our house is not prepared for any of it. I’m off to buy some chocolate.
That sounds like a pretty interesting book. You say it is a series? I’ve never read this author before.
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I really couldn’t stop reading. My husband became a reading widower!! Are you reading anything interesting?
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Reading widower! 🙂 I think me & my husband are the same, as we both read a lot. Let’s see…I’ve been reading Lisa Scottoline’s books she wrote with her daughter Francesca. There are several and they are short essays about the funny things that happen to them.
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Ooh, thanks for the suggestion of what I might read next! I hadn’t heard of her and I love funny books! 😁
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That’s a good run down of those books. Sounds like a good read for me, too. So…what have you got planned for the coming perils? I want to find a generator that operates on air.
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Thanks, Jean! I don’t have anything planned. I just stumbled onto this one. Maybe you can find us something? I’m thinking a wind turbine won’t work in this area….
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Links to amazing WITTS fuelless generator and other inventions:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgUBFNW5fUfO6IQbaoaA5Mg
Interview with Inventor Timothy Thrapp: https://peswiki.com/powerpedia:timothy-thrapp
Recent page: https://peswiki.com/powerpedia:timothy-thrapp
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Will check those out! Thanks!
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