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48 Hours

By: William R. Forstchen
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
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Publisher's Summary

From The New York Times best-selling author of the smash hit One Second After series comes 48 Hours, a nail-biting and prescient thriller about a solar storm with the power to destroy the world's electrical infrastructure.

In 48 hours, the Earth will be hit by a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun, a "Carrington Event" that has the power to shut down and possibly destroy the world's electrical infrastructure. To try and prevent permanent damage, everything goes dark prior to the hit: Global communications are shut down; hospital emergency generators are disconnected; the entire internet, media broadcasting, and cell phone systems are turned off.

Will the world's population successfully defend itself in the wake of the CME, or will mass panic lead to the breakdown of society as we know it?

William R. Forstchen is at his best in 48 Hours, a tale of the resilience of American citizens when faced with a crisis.

©2019 William R. Forstchen (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Interesting story premise spoiled

The performance was excellent. And the story idea an interesting one. But the frequent meanderings into Christian dogma and American patriotism ruined it for me. I wish that all books would come with a warning to avoid if you aren’t religious.

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Fizzles Out

Draws you in with intriguing science and the promise of an incredible story. Leaves you with neither.
In a way the story shows the futility of human struggles and unfortunately that shows in the characters stories.

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Good topic, horrible plot.

Started off well, then main protagonists turned into redneck morons. Had to stop listening half way through as it was so stupid…

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Great story well researched.

Great story well researched. Captivated me and was engaging all way along. Hope there is one about life after the event.
You could tell the writer tried really hard to write a quality book and succeded is it perfect no but so what, what is perfect!

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Great Book

The only issue I have with this book is the there is not a second book in the series.

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What Would You Do?

Mr Forstchen, as usual brilliant. A so perfectly plausible view of humanity at it's worst and best.

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Phew !

Exceptional story, yes some religious stuff but I think the author did an amazing job. I could imagine for real a few who aren't religious would have done the same as those in the story. I'm pleased I listened and didn't take to heart some of the other reviews.
Hope you enjoy it if you decide to listen.

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Painfully Slow at Times

Dogmatically christian at times. I can handle that in American books, by and large. But my god, was this one slow. I get that it was building up to the end, but did it have to be that repetitive? How many times does the poor scientist need to be asked the same question? Arrrrgh.
But it wasn’t awful. Just not his best.

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"Don't Look Up"

Not quite the same story, but if you enjoyed that movie, you'd probably like this book.

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amazing

loved every minute of it. good rate of reading and the expression is amazing. would highly recommend

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