Swamp Run

About the Book

You are one of a very few persons in a large Georgia city to learn of an imminent nuclear attack. You have a very short time, possibly less than an hour, to gather what you can and flee the city. What do you do? Where do you go? Knowing that to try and warn any others will put his own life in peril. Knowing that, even if they believe him, any he does warn will waste precious moments getting in touch with their own family and friends. And knowing that trying at that last minute to set up some kind of priority list is impossible in the first place, Trev Latimer quickly gathers what he can and drives south. Because he knows that his best chance for safety and survival is away from any urban centers and out of any obvious evacuation routes, Trev heads for a deep southern part of the state. To a small house and some land inherited from his father. A place not visited often by himself and now unlikely to be overrun by refugees looking for haven and willing to do whatever they had to do to survive. Despite some feeling against his late father, who may have been involved in a decades-old double murder, he is welcomed into the small Black community. There he makes new friends and learns new skills as he settles into a much changed life. His old life is gone forever and there will be no return to it. This attack he is fleeing is the latest of a series of misfortunes to befall the country. The US has been involved in a number of military adventures around the world that have sapped its economy, its man-power and its materiel. The country has suffered thru terrorist attacks, natural disasters and been devastated, along with most of the world, by a deadly influenza plague. Now in its weakened condition global enemies take the opportunity to rain death down upon almost the entire East Coast. Life is hard for the ex-postal worker and becomes a constant daily struggle with no time off and very little in the way of diversion or amusement. But Trev perseveres. Settling into a survival routine and surprises himself with this new found self-reliance. Then his new life and his refuge is disrupted by racial violence and he must flee again. This time into a huge, nearby swamp. All of his survival skills are put to the test as farming, fishing and trapping once done in the open with the help of neighbors must now be conducted as a fugitive under cover in a much more hostile area. The story follows the man as he adapts to this new and strange refuge even as he plots vengeance on enemies not his by choice and a return to his own little piece of land. The reader goes along as Trev finds that revenge breeds violence that soon involves himself but during these further adventures he also finds some resolution to the old mystery that involved his father.

About the Author

George B. Lee is a pharmacist living in a Philadelphia suburb who wrote fiction as a hobby until his retirement. Since then he has published a two volume novel and a book of short stories along with this and two other adventure novels of men struggling to survive in the aftermath of country-wide destruction.