Wasteland

About the Book

THIS BOOK IS about a young, heart broken survivor of a massive attack against the nations, causing war and destruction all across the globe. The Americas and the Eastern hemisphere were in a full out war, attacking one another leaving no one to trust. President Hardy Perkins the IV instated a law that protective shelters be built to ensure the survival of the American people. Just months before the nuclear bombs were dropped, war struck America. The invading forces, the Germans and Russian Liberated Communists, or the GRC, dealt a nasty blow to the free people of America. When the attacks became too overpowering to handle, on all fronts, the president ordered all of the remaining American people to withdrawal inside of the blast shelters, built for one purpose, their protection. One of the attacks had reached the small city of Green Crest, Iowa. They never got the message. As the bombs fell billions upon billions of people all over the world were wiped from existence, without warning. As the world was engulfed in flames, smoldering dust, smoke clouds and charred ash, the entire face of Earth was changed. Water sources were instantly dried and forests burned as a side effect of the hellish storm that had taken place due to the bombs dropping. Being in the Wasteland, the entire climate went with the war. Freezing cold nights all year long and extremely hot summers was an effect of the nuclear bombs. As the polar caps instantly melted and the mountains’ snow gone, the weather could get rather extreme sometimes. A few years after the war, the polar caps became giant land masses and the mountains became large snowy, blizzard death traps. All of the world’s communications were cut off, except for a few short waved radios. Kadin a small town boy from Green Crest, Iowa was one of the lucky survivors of the great flash, a name for the rolling, flaming, dust clouds that came from the bombs, if you call it lucky to survive. It was four months after his seventeenth birthday when this happened, taking everything he ever knew, loved, cared about, and “was” was, gone. Several weeks before the flash they were assaulted by a regiment of attacking forces. Taken by surprise they had little time to plan or prepare for it, but being part of the free American people from Green Crest, Iowa they put a hold on their advance. Kadin, his mother Julie, his mother’s serious boyfriend Josh, and Josh’s daughter Summer were a family of their own problems. They suffered the loss of Kadin’s mother in the first attack from the GRC. Later on Josh was killed in a shooting on Main Street and Washington in the town square. Due to the loss of both parents he took to making Summer’s safety his number one concern. He kept her safe up until days before the flash. Now as he scourers the wasteland looking for something worth living for. As clouds of memories constantly fill his mind at night especially when he dreams. Knowledge of the past helps him in this war torn, death ravaged future. It’s now been eight years since the flash and Kadin has learned how to make it day to day out here in the wastes, avoiding any unprotected settlement and not staying put is his key to life. Raiders, murderers, crooks, famine, mutants, dehydration, and an endless wasteland, welcome to Kadin’s story.

About the Author

First off I would like to say, anything is possible. I had a lot of people who said I would never do anything with my life and well I sure showed them. I never really looked at writing as something of an interest. I always hated writing and was always told that I could write but, just never liked to. I guess what interests me most is my dreams. Crazy I know but, I have some very vivid dreams and I love my wild imagination for it. I spend most of my time coaching and working. If I do have down time I will tell you I am either playing music or playing games. I really do appreciate my wife for being there 100% of the way. I do hope that if you have a dream you go for it. Everyone is good at something, you just have to find that something to be good at it.