Review: Fine for two thirds of the book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2013
The first two thirds of the book are standard doom porn fare.  A pandemic forces a family to flee the big city to ride out the chaos with family.  There's good tension as the family struggles to survive while trying to minimize the chance of infection.  The final third of the book was silly.SPOILERS BELOW.In the final third of the book, our hero, who formally was a chubby, out of shape, middle-aged office worker of some sort (i.e., probably your prototypical "prepper") finds a staffed national guard armory.  But it's not your typical national guard armory.  In addition to weapons, there's underground storage rooms full of food, medical supplies, etc., which the guardsmen plan to use to rebuild a community.  Also, there's a "Magical NCO", who is a stock prepper porn character, who transforms our protagonist into a lean, mean, one-man killing machine ready to "take out the trash".  ooh-rah!  Before sending him off on his mission of holy vengance, the guardsmen equip our hero with the latest and greatest in killing technology, including an ENFIELD "sniper rifle".  Um, right.  There are no M14's in that armory?  No M40s?  No AR-10s?  It's got to be a 100+ year old bolt action dinosaur chambered in an obscure caliber?Any way, our hero takes his super operator skillz and his trusty Enfield (and he finds a bunch of blasting caps and timed detonators someplace...), and wages righteous one-man war on a camp of evildoers where he (and I'm not making this up) kills like 100 people with nary a scratch.There are much better books in this genre.