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Arisen Omnibus Edition: Books 1-3

Written by: Michael Stephen Fuchs, Glynn James
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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Book One - Fortress Britain: When the Zombie Apocalypse came, one country had shut down its borders in response to a major terrorist attack. Now Fortress Britain is the last bastion of the living - with 50 million beleaguered survivors facing down a world of seven billion animated corpses. And one international team of elite special operators - supremely trained and armed, always the most skilled, resolved, and unstoppable amongst us - are humanity's last best hope for survival....

Book Two - Mogadishu of the Dead: Alpha team is tasked with one last desperate operation: They must cross the Atlantic aboard the world's only remaining supercarrier and insert by air into the very middle of a dead continent, all in search of a rumored vaccine that might bring humanity back from the brink. But their op goes dangerously wrong from the start, with the team scattered to hell and back, and their target site a dry hole. Now they must fight their way on foot through a city of three million ravening dead guys, in search of an underground bunker that might hold the Last Man on Earth. But these undead will not be like any Zulus they have ever fought before - and they surround the new target in a writhing ring of death 30 feet high on all sides....

Book Three - Three Parts Dead: Alpha team, the world's best and last surviving Tier-1 operators, are adrift on Lake Michigan - and fast drifting into what looks like a damned hostile shoreline. Deep in the National Forest nearby, a former police officer and survivalist battles to keep her family alive - and tries to decide whether the commandos of Alpha are more dangerous to her alive or dead. Meanwhile, the John F. Kennedy, the world's last floating supercarrier, is run aground off the coast of Virginia - and facing a veritable hurricane of the dead, blowing in fast. Finally, back in Fortress Britain, the terrible outbreak from the Channel Tunnel turns out not to have been so contained after all.

©2014 Michael Stephen Fuchs, Glynn James (P)2015 Podium Publishing

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A great series. Well worth a listen.

I very much enjoyed all 14 books in this series. I didn't get bored and I wanted to listen to the next book and then the next to see what happened. How the characters get out of the next situation!

Sometimes the main characters pull off some unrealistic maneuvers and come out without a scratch but I love that ! These are the best of the best fighting to save the world and it is great to see them defy the norm and kick some serious butt doing it.

ofcourse R.C. Bray is a master at narration. He is actually why I gave these first 3 books a listen.... and I like apocalypse plot lines.

Arisen and Mountain Man have easily been my 2 favorites in this genre and I'd recommend listening :)

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Very enjoyable but books are short for the price.

I've listened to 1-3 Omnibus and 4. I've enjoyed them immensely, I'm interested in what will happen to the characters. I like that plots are unfolding in the UK and North America. I have only one gripe, each book isn't a whole book, there are lots of books in the series but listening to all of them is going cost more than $300CAD it's really adding up.

I've liked the books so far but as a series habit goes it's getting as expensive as crack cocaine. Sure I can bust out a credit for each book but my listening habit is quite a bit more than 9 hours a month. The story is good and captivating though.

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Skeptical no more.

I was a skeptic off he start. Another zombie apocalypse? Ugh.

Though it is not entirely original (how can a zombie plot be anymore) it is mostly a good story.

Always teetering on the brink of disaster, sometimes exhaustingly so, it does keep your attention and keep you wanting more.

On to book 4.

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Gun and right wing extravaganza

Did not like the story very much. Not my cup of soup. For a diff

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Sub par manipulation SPOILER ALERT

Great but un-met potential. Entertaining enough and likeable characters but frustrating logic errors. Why didn’t the accompanying ship and sub support with the mutiny? How can such smart survivors make such dumb rookie errors? How can a seasoned XO miss the obvious? Also, the books are all too short and end in cliffhangers that try to manipulate you into buying the next one. Forget it. I’m done.

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Very Good

So far the series is very enjoyable and the characters are well thought out. I hope the future books will continue.

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Great Zombie Human Soldier exploration

Great Books but could all just be in one book as they are just continuations

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Fantastic

Began to panic a bit when I realized the plot lines extended beyond books 1-3 in this omnibus ... only to find to my happy relief there are many more instalments to come. Great character development, great mix of action and non-action, and of course Bray rules the voices.

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reads like the worst 80s action movies...

the Narator is fine but the story and writing are really bad. there's more thought into what kind of guns everyone uses then in any character development. Lots of cliche "they are the best of the best" descriptions along with some "I'm doing this for my kids back home" while shooting zombies in the face. A neat world idea but a lot of what the characters do and how they react don't make sense. if you still wanna give it a try then maybe it'll be more your bag then mine

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Incredible narrator - Mostly mindless action

Nothing of substance happens in this omnibus collection. These stories are essentially serials- nothing is resolved in any one episode..instead each episode "ends" in a quasi-cliffhanger. Encounter after encounter occurs - firefight, death, firefight, death - interspersed with techno-thriller descriptions of military hardware, military jargon and slang, and endless - ENDLESS - acronyms. If that's your thing, this is a great book... nothing but action. By the third book, a passing attempt at character development is tried, but the actual plot is pretty thin. In the first book ('Fortress Britain'), for example, a small group of survivors trapped in the Chunnel is rescued, and a new, aggressive type of zombie is encountered (while surviving civilization hangs on in a walled-off British Isles). That's it. That's the plot.
The second novel ('Mogadishu Of The Dead') is more typical zombie fare - cartoonishly gory with nonsensical plot events - including life on an Aircraft Carrier while travelling to a mission to Chicago searching for biotech information.
By the third installment - 'Three Parts Dead' - I decided to just stop thinking and enjoy these books for what they are. Fortunately, Fuchs and James also appear to have learned what they're doing and stopped taking the subject matter so seriously. They continue on a sketched-out "find a cure" mission, but have decided to just enjoy the ride. They add grim humor and some laugh-out-loud expressions to the dialogue. The third book is consequently far more enjoyable. It's still, sadly, headshakingly nonsensical (the authors also bizarrely elected to add elements of romance to the story).

R.C. Bray is by far the best narrator in the business - his only weakness is that his accents aren't spot-on. He is unfortunately forced to use Brit accents in this one, weakening his performance...but Bray could still read a hardware store flyer and make it sound exciting.

Altogether, the value of buying three novels in one omnibus improves the rating of this collection - and if you are looking for pure brain candy, this is a fun diversion ..but it's still only good for 5 stars out of 10.

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