Surviving the Evacuation 20, Small Cogs in the Survival Machine, is out now and available in ebook and paperback from:
Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3ZiZSO3
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Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BWSKYZD3
Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BWSKYZD3
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Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1351504
Digital and paperback copies should be available in libraries within the next few days (the length of time will vary depending on which system they use).
Audiobooks - will be recorded soon (hopefully immediately after Brawl of the Worlds is finished)
The Final Evacuation Begins
A year and a half after the collapse of civilisation, pirates plague the Atlantic, the Saint Lawrence River is a radioactive dead-zone, and the forests of Quebec are succumbing to disease. The survivors in Eastern Canada have no choice but to embark on a final evacuation that will entail crossing the breadth of North America to reach the comparative safety of the Pacific.
Until they leave, life goes on, and children grow up. For Jay, that means getting a job. Apprenticed to old George Tull, he’s tasked with scouting the Digby Peninsula for roadworthy vehicles left behind during the first evacuation of Canada. Instead, he finds signs that an old foe has returned.
For this last evacuation not to become a deadly tragedy like its British forebear, safe roads and intact bridges must be found. Tuck and Sorcha join the soldiers mapping the tracks and trails through the dying forests of Quebec. It should be a straightforward mission, but the starving bears and predatory wolves are a lesser danger than the desperate survivors who wish to be forgotten by the world.
The scientists from the more populous survivor-communities in the Pacific have a bigger concern. With increasing desertification on land, and rising toxicity in the oceans, it is unclear for how much longer the planet can sustain life. As imminent extinction is a real possibility, a multi-faith request is made for an expedition to Mecca and Jerusalem. For the devout, it is an opportunity to complete a pilgrimage. For the politicians, it is a chance to diminish the power of the ascendant crusaders, extremists, and death cults. For a few, it is an opportunity to hunt for the friends and family abandoned during the escape from Europe.
Though this story continues on from Book 19 (beginning about 20 minutes after the last book finished), it begins a new mini-series that will focus on the difficulties in building a new community from scratch set against a backdrop of power struggles, migration, radiation-laden storms, and, of course, the search for tea.
Apologies for the delay in publishing, but last year’s health issues left my brain a tad more frazzled than I realised. Hopefully the writing will be back on schedule now. I’m not going to set a deadline for the next book, but it will be Brawl of the Worlds 2, for which I’ve a solid draft. That will be followed by Book 21, and then… well, after finishing Book 19, I wrote a draft of a standalone story titled ‘The Scavenger’s Guild’, which was to star Bran and Sholto, and begin in California in the early autumn. The time jump left far too much to be explained. The more I thought about it, the more it seemed that this story was the end of an adventure rather than the beginning. Which is great, because it means I have a decent draft and outline of the rest of the books in this arc.
Happy reading, Frank :)