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Without Warning

By: John Birmingham
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
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America is Gone. It’s 2003 and American forces are assembled in Kuwait for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris an assassin wakes from a coma, in the Cascades a lone hiker watches a plane fly into a mountain and just north of the Equator a modern-day pirate, a rogue-Tasmanian, is witness to the unspeakable.

In one instant an inexplicable wave of energy has changed the world. From Canberra to Cairo things will never be the same. As the jihadists celebrate, Saddam plots revenge and the Israeli’s act, allied soldiers are left to fight a war without command. The functioning remnants of American government are left at Pearl Harbour, Guantanamo and in one desperate and isolated corner of the Pacific Northwest. A noxious waste darkens Europe’s skies and Australasia beckons as a sanctuary. An unknowable future struggles to be born.

©2008 John Birmingham (P)2011 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Adventure Fiction Genre Fiction Military Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military Middle East War

Critic Reviews

"John Birmingham’s ability to seamlessly merge the gritty realism of Tom Clancy with the raw speculation of Michael Crichton is like no other author I’ve ever read. Brilliant, nail-biting, thoughtful, and excruciatingly pertinent to our times." (James Rollins, New York Times best-selling author)
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yet another great story by the master story teller! can't wait to start reading the second book, After America

Brilliant Birmingham again

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the narration was outstanding and really brought the excellent
book and the characters to life.

the story had an excellent premise and a iiwell told story with many characters and side stories.

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I enjoyed the storyline and the different characters. The narrator was good but struggled with accents. His English accent was poor and I cringed everytime an Australian character spoke, but otherwise it was very enjoyable.

Great story

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it was ok. interesting story but disappointing ending. narration was ok but not great.

Eh. expected better.

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I love this story; the performance needed work. For example, checking pronunciation: Diamantina is Die-man-tina.

Should be a Hollywood movie

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