That Used To Be US: by Kim Bellard
Book Details
Author(s)Kim Bellard
ISBN / ASINB018WMRUMS
ISBN-13978B018WMRUM1
Sales Rank3,928,529
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
When the United States fell, it fell quickly and totally. Its collapse leads to global economic devastation and an appalling number of casualties. The architect of the destruction, General Frank Mitchell, establishes a new military state -- named “New America” -- in the central part of the former U.S.. Anyone who disagrees with his ideas is dead…or hunted.
Meyer – who believes that first names have no place in New America – is one of the hunted. He slowly trudges his way west, trying to stay under the radar of the various people who would kill him on sight while not starving to death. His vague goal is to make it out of New America, but his real goal is simply to stay alive one more day at a time. Despite his instincts for self-preservation, he finds himself coming to the rescue of several others who can’t protect themselves, including a group of hackers who end up proposing a bold but risky way out of New America.
Kate Simpson had given up resisting New America, and is sent to one of its “refugee camps.” She quickly learns it is actually a death camp, and leads an unplanned revolt against the camp guards. Once she and the other refugees gain control, Kate has to try to figure out how to keep them all alive, as they face both distant and immediate enemies, including one for whom it is personal.
Both Meyer and Kate resist New America in their own way, and each knows the fight is ultimately doomed. Each fears they are losing some of themselves in their struggles to stay alive, as the concepts of right and wrong are not so clear-cut in New America. Their efforts will meet up in a turn of events that neither could have ever expected and which may yet give them the chance to survive.
Meyer – who believes that first names have no place in New America – is one of the hunted. He slowly trudges his way west, trying to stay under the radar of the various people who would kill him on sight while not starving to death. His vague goal is to make it out of New America, but his real goal is simply to stay alive one more day at a time. Despite his instincts for self-preservation, he finds himself coming to the rescue of several others who can’t protect themselves, including a group of hackers who end up proposing a bold but risky way out of New America.
Kate Simpson had given up resisting New America, and is sent to one of its “refugee camps.” She quickly learns it is actually a death camp, and leads an unplanned revolt against the camp guards. Once she and the other refugees gain control, Kate has to try to figure out how to keep them all alive, as they face both distant and immediate enemies, including one for whom it is personal.
Both Meyer and Kate resist New America in their own way, and each knows the fight is ultimately doomed. Each fears they are losing some of themselves in their struggles to stay alive, as the concepts of right and wrong are not so clear-cut in New America. Their efforts will meet up in a turn of events that neither could have ever expected and which may yet give them the chance to survive.
