Redaction: Extinction Level Event (Part I) [Kindle Edition]

Linda Andrews (Author)

Book Description

Updated 8/10/12 with additional scenes

Six months after an Influenza Pandemic swept across the globe, the world is starting to emerge from quarantine. But Pestilence Free Day is short-lived. For an unseen enemy has just been unleashed.

Five people. Seven days.

A brilliant scientist with an apocalyptic forecast

A soldier that needs an enemy to fight

A college student venturing into a changed world

An insurance salesman who exploits every opportunity

A juvenile delinquent desperate to leave his past behind

Redaction: Humanity is about to be erased from the Book of Life

Word Length: 150,000, Edited by TL Hockett, Cathleen Ross
WARNING: This book contains violence, crude language and disturbing sexual references

Also by Linda Andrews:

Redaction: The Meltdown (Part II)

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Linda Andrews lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband, three children and a menagerie of domesticated animals. While she started writing a decade ago, she always used her stories to escape the redundancy of her day job as a scientist and never thought to actually combine her love of fiction and science. DOH! After that Homer Simpson moment, she allowed the two halves of her brain to talk to each other. The journeys she’s embarked on since then are dark, twisted and occasionally violent, but never predictable. If you’ve loved one of her most demented creations so far, she’d love to hear from you at lindaandrews at lindaandrews dot net

Product Details

• File Size: 651 KB
• Print Length: 383 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1481069764
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0061Y7J94
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,427 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #64 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Medical
  • #75 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Medical

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 52 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Would you survive? November 14, 2011

By Elysa Hendricks

Format:Kindle Edition

REDACTION by Linda Andrews gave me the chills. She's crafted a scary, well-told tale of what "will" happen to our world "when" the next pandemic hits.

Ms Andrews' story jumps in just as people believe the worst of the pandemic, that's killed over thirty percent of the people infected, is over. How wrong they are. A new wave is about to devastate the fragile remains of society. And there's nothing anyone can do to prevent it. The best they can do is try to be among the one percent predicted to survive.

Ms Andrews story follows five main characters - a scientist, her teenaged niece, a soldier, a young Hispanic boy, and a creepy insurance salesman (love the type-casting here.) Their stories start out separately then merge together as the tension mounts. And boy does it mount!

Sheep. Dogs. Wolves. Lobos. This is how according to one character the human population breaks down after society collapses. Which would you be? All I know is that when the pandemic hits those who die first will be the lucky ones.

So if you want a book that will keep you up reading, and then if you're lucky enough to fall asleep, will give you nightmares, pick up and read REDACTION by Linda Andrews.

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Story - BUT December 4, 2011

By Dave Gardner

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I really enjoyed the story but I must say I think the ending seems like it was rushed. The story was very detailed until the end then many of the story lines were left unfinshed. Would I recommend this book? YES - Does there need to be a sequel? YES.

58 of 65 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievably painful January 17, 2012

By J. Hardy

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I really, really wanted to like this book, but it's just not possible. From the outset it is riddled with agonizing exposition dialogue that reads like bad comedy. e.g. the first thing that survivors do after an outbreak is describe the virus and its symptoms to each other??? oh, and remind each other of thier jobs and ages??? Because that's what I would do, right??

The writing is bland and the over-description of mundane events is IQ-shattering - e.g. page after page of text describing the one-dimensional characters ordering burgers from a fast food joint. This is not entertainment, it is tedium in extremis.

I love the pandemic/zombie outbreak/post-apocalyptic genre and endured the onslaught tremendously in the hope that this book would get better, but it just didn't. Despite the interesting premise and story arc, the shallow characters and overt (on-the-nose) writing style work in tandem to crush any interest you may have in the fate of the characters.

There are a lot of good ideas here, but it is an exercise is masochism to get to them.

I don't usually hold high hopes when I only spend a dollar on something, but you have to draw the line somewhere. Unless you have a lot of free time on your hands, I'd look elsewhere

More About the Author

Linda Andrews lives with her husband and three children in Phoenix, Arizona. When she announced to her family that her paranormal romance was to be published, her sister pronounce: "What else would she write? She's never been normal."

All kidding aside, writing has become a surprising passion. So just how did a scientist start to write paranormal romances? What other option is there when you're married to romantic man and live in a haunted house?