***** 2014 B.R.A.G. MEDALLION WINNER FOR EXCELLENCE IN INDIE PUBLISHING *****
When the sun belched and the power grid failed, it was only nine meals until the end of the world.
Billy "Shep" Shepard always thought the apocalypse would come from an asteroid with a funny name, or a super bug, or a nuclear war, or even Yellowstone blowing its top. It came from none of those things. Instead it came from an angry sun in the form of the biggest Coronal Mass Ejection mankind had ever seen - and it slapped the human race back a century.
In these grim times, people kill for food, water and weapons. They scratch out a feeble existence after "The Ejection." But not Shep. His biggest question each day in his underground bunker is "Cheese Ravioli, Beefaroni or SpaghettiOs?"
Shep soon discovers that nothing in this new world is guaranteed. He and Antigone, a girl he rescues, are forced to take a perilous journey across an unyielding landscape toward the one place rumored to be unsullied by the disaster. Along the way they must overcome hunger, disease, desperation and death while running from a man who wants nothing more than vengeance.
PRAISE FOR NINE MEALS:
- Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," but with more depth and much more suspenseful, "Nine Meals" is going to delight both fans and non-fans of the genre. - New York Book Pundit
- Anyone who loves smart apocalyptic fiction will be in their glory with Nine Meals. -- Amazon reader
- This is not a science fiction story but a very believable future biography of our world. I highly recommend this story, especially if you are a fan of George Orwell. -- Amazon customer
The Story Behind This Book
I always thought the end of the world would come not from a super bug or an asteroid with a funny name or Yellowstone blowing its top, but from people. People are the most dangerous thing in the universe and this book explores that. When people go nine meals without food, they become desperate and destroy.
