Life Goes On by Tayell, Frank (large ebook reader txt) 📗

 

 

If Not Us

Life Goes On 4

 

Surviving the Evacuation

 

Frank Tayell

 

Reading Order & Copyright

If not now, when? If not us, who?

Surviving the Evacuation: If Not Us

Life Goes On, Book 4

 

Published by Frank Tayell

Copyright 2021

All rights reserved

All people, places, and (most) events are fictional.

 

Post-Apocalyptic Detective Novels

Work. Rest. Repeat.

Strike a Match 1. Serious Crimes

Strike a Match 2. Counterfeit Conspiracy

Strike a Match 3. Endangered Nation

Surviving The Evacuation / Here We Stand / Life Goes On

Book 1: London

Book 2: Wasteland

Zombies vs The Living Dead

Book 3: Family

Book 4: Unsafe Haven

Book 5: Reunion

Book 6: Harvest

Book 7: Home

Here We Stand 1: Infected

Here We Stand 2: Divided

Book 8: Anglesey

Book 9: Ireland

Book 10: The Last Candidate

Book 11: Search and Rescue

Book 12: Britain’s End

Book 13: Future’s Beginning

Book 14: Mort Vivant

Book 15: Where There’s Hope

Book 16: Unwanted Visitors, Unwelcome Guests

Life Goes On 1: Outback Outbreak

Life Goes On 2: No More News

Life Goes On 3: While the Lights Are On

Book 17: There We Stood

Life Goes On 4: If Not Us

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Synopsis

If not us, who? If not now, when?

As the much-depleted United Nations meets in Canberra, the scale of the global catastrophe becomes clear. The tsunami left Brisbane a flooded ruin. Vanuatu has disappeared. The Madagascan evacuation has failed. Vancouver has been reduced to a radioactive crater. For as far west as Mozambique, as far to the east as Chile, and as far north as Canada, the world is a catalogue of devastation. From the Atlantic, there has been no news since the early days of the outbreak, four weeks ago.

With the satellite networks down, searching for survivors is difficult. With the relief fleets destroyed, rescue is impossible. While the fallout is still settling, the collective minds of the refugees in Australia focus on rebuilding as a distraction from the rising risk of radiation and extinction.

Commissioner Tess Qwong has a different duty. She must find those responsible for this ultimate crime against humanity. Her investigation into the failed coup provides the identity of those behind the outbreak and the location of their lab.

With her misfit group of Special Forces and civilian conscripts, she heads to Mozambique. There, a New Zealand frigate will take them on into the unknown dangers of the Atlantic. But while they hunt the radioactive seas for the war criminals, below the waves their enemy is hunting for them.

From Perth to Panama, from South Africa to South America, from paradise islands to radioactive wastelands, the battle against extinction continues.

 

Table of Contents

The Investigation So Far

Part 1: Evacuation

14th March

Chapter 1 - While the Lights Are On

Chapter 2 - No Ball Games in the Garage

Chapter 3 - A New Parliament

Chapter 4 - Family Loyalties

15th March

Chapter 5 - The Taste of a Dollar

Chapter 6 - Out of the Fire, Into the Firing Line

Chapter 7 - Warriors

Chapter 8 - A Bridge Too Far

Chapter 9 - Almost Paradise

Chapter 10 - Waves of Death

16th March

Chapter 11 - Prayer for the Living

17th March

Chapter 12 - The Worst Workout

Part 2: A Copper Log

18th March

Chapter 13 - A Commissioner’s Diary

19th March

Chapter 14 - Daily Exercise

20th March

Chapter 15 - Radio Free England

21st March

Chapter 16 - Sherlock Holmes

Part 3: Forgotten Lessons from Not So Long Ago

22nd March

Chapter 17 - The Cape of Lost Hope

Chapter 18 - Too Old for Toys

Chapter 19 - Rooftop Safari

Chapter 20 - Nitro Express

Chapter 21 - Never Leave the Living With Regret

23rd March

Chapter 22 - At Sea, On Land

Chapter 23 - The Crazy Things We Do For Our Kids

Chapter 24 - News From Above

Part 4: The Point of No Return

24th March

Chapter 25 - Other Rooftops

Chapter 26 - The Courageous

26th March

Chapter 27 - Brace for Impact

27th March

Chapter 28 - Axe and Stone

28th March

Chapter 29 - An Old Type of New Sail

29th March

Chapter 30 - Simmer and Fizz

30th March

Chapter 31 - A Joke of a Ship

31st March

Chapter 32 - America

Part 5: Two Sisters, One Brother

1st April

Chapter 33 - Bienvenue à la Belle France

2nd April

Chapter 34 - Evidence at Sea

3rd April

Chapter 35 - Tomorrow’s Battle

4th April

Chapter 36 - A Desert Rose

Chapter 37 - Solar Panels Underground

Chapter 38 - Atropine for the Soul

5th April

Chapter 39 - Two out of Thirty Minutes

6th April

Chapter 40 - A Ship, a Plan, a Canal: Panama?

7th April

Chapter 41 - Pirates of the Caribbean

Chapter 42 - Catching a Shark

Chapter 43 - Pursue and Ye Shall Find

Chapter 44 - A Long Way From the Outback

Epilogue - Do You?

 

 

Part 1

 

Evacuation

 

Australia and Africa

The Investigation So Far

 

Canberra International Airport, Australia

Canberra’s first-class lounge echoed with a metallic, and occasionally wooden, clatter as four Australian conscripts opened travel-worn crates of AKM assault rifles: Clyde Brook, a soldier turned aid-worker; Teegan Toppley, a retired gunrunner still technically serving a four-year sentence; Bianca Clague, a former socialite who still wore her jewels; and Elaina Slater, a primary school teacher who’d volunteered as a soldier to keep her pupils safe.

“Even I know you shouldn’t store guns in sand,” Bianca said.

“These weren’t stored,” Teegan Toppley said. “They were hidden. Probably on a beach, with the location recorded on an X-marks-the-spot treasure map.”

“Oh, c’mon, Teegan,” Elaina said. “There’s only one time in history where X ever really marked the