"Lightning Fall: A Novel of Disaster" by Bill Quick
https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Fall-Disaster-Bill-Quick/dp/1497360935/

Book number one of a one book science fiction apocalyptic series. There
is a second book planned but has yet to be published. I read the 672
page trade paperback published by the author in 2014 that was well
printed on the Amazon POD (print on demand) press in Coppell, Texas.
Unfortunately, my first copy of the book was not well bound as every
third or fourth page fell out of the perfect binding. I notified Amazon
via their excellent web app and they replaced the book at no charge
within two days. I returned the defective book to them as requested at
my local UPS store. The new book is well printed and well bound (and
heavy at 1.95 lbs!).

This is a new look at an EMP attack on the USA. Most EMP books look at
the east coast of the USA, this book looks at the west coast of the USA.
The book starts off with three freighters of Arab origin, one off the
west coast of the USA near San Fransisco, one off the Gulf Coast near
New Orleans, and the third off the east coast near Washington, DC on
September 11, 2019. Each freighter contains a Sejil-2 solid fuel IRBM
with a 100 kton nuclear warhead. The first nuclear bomb explodes 120 km
(72 miles) above San Fransisco, sending a devastating EMP shock out in a
1,000 mile radius. The second nuclear bomb malfunctions, lands in Lake
Pontchartrain near New Orleans, explodes and send a huge cloud of
radioactive steam into the air, destroying New Orleans and directly
killing many of the inhabitants. The third missile freighter off the
east is late, launches its missile which is then destroyed by an USAF
anti-missile system.

However, the loss of power on the west coast is a killer for an
estimated sixty million Americans west of the Rockies as electric power,
fresh water, food, and transportation systems immediately fail. And
forty percent of trains and trucks in the USA needed to resupply the
west coast are heavily damaged by the EMP pulse. The Navy races its
large ships back to the San Fransisco and San Diego harbors but the
foreign deployments take weeks to return from. Wild fires, dirty water,
and starvation quickly decimate the population.

My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (183 reviews)

Lynn

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:56:43 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>"Lightning Fall: A Novel of Disaster" by Bill Quick
> https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Fall-Disaster-Bill-Quick/dp/1497360935/
>
>Book number one of a one book science fiction apocalyptic series. There
>is a second book planned but has yet to be published. I read the 672
>page trade paperback published by the author in 2014 that was well
>printed on the Amazon POD (print on demand) press in Coppell, Texas.
>Unfortunately, my first copy of the book was not well bound as every
>third or fourth page fell out of the perfect binding. I notified Amazon
>via their excellent web app and they replaced the book at no charge
>within two days. I returned the defective book to them as requested at
>my local UPS store. The new book is well printed and well bound (and
>heavy at 1.95 lbs!).

I had similar experiences with a DVD-R and (much later) a CD-R. Both
were returned and replaced without problem.

Both, as I pointed out to them, could have been caught before being
sent by simple /turning them over and looking at them/. Sadly, that
does not apply to a book. Unless riffling the pages would make them
fall out. But that's more than just looking.

I have bought other DVD-Rs and other CD-Rs from them, but those were
the only ones with problems. There is a learning curve here, and
Amazon has climbed it at least two times in the past.
--
"In this connexion, unquestionably the most significant
development was the disintegration, under Christian
influence, of classical conceptions of the family and
of family right."

On 10/18/2022 11:51 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:56:43 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Lightning Fall: A Novel of Disaster" by Bill Quick
>> https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Fall-Disaster-Bill-Quick/dp/1497360935/
>>
>> Book number one of a one book science fiction apocalyptic series. There
>> is a second book planned but has yet to be published. I read the 672
>> page trade paperback published by the author in 2014 that was well
>> printed on the Amazon POD (print on demand) press in Coppell, Texas.
>> Unfortunately, my first copy of the book was not well bound as every
>> third or fourth page fell out of the perfect binding. I notified Amazon
>> via their excellent web app and they replaced the book at no charge
>> within two days. I returned the defective book to them as requested at
>> my local UPS store. The new book is well printed and well bound (and
>> heavy at 1.95 lbs!).
>
> I had similar experiences with a DVD-R and (much later) a CD-R. Both
> were returned and replaced without problem.
>
> Both, as I pointed out to them, could have been caught before being
> sent by simple /turning them over and looking at them/. Sadly, that
> does not apply to a book. Unless riffling the pages would make them
> fall out. But that's more than just looking.
>
> I have bought other DVD-Rs and other CD-Rs from them, but those were
> the only ones with problems. There is a learning curve here, and
> Amazon has climbed it at least two times in the past.

Big River is an amazing company. I started buying stuff from them in
2001. I don't know why I did not buy a hundred thousand shares back
then when it was $6 before the splits.

Lynn