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  • Ashes of the Unspeakable

  • The Borrowed World Series, Book Two
  • By: Franklin Horton
  • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
  • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (54 ratings)

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Ashes of the Unspeakable

By: Franklin Horton
Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
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Summary

In The Borrowed World, Franklin Horton showed us an America brought to its knees by a nationwide terror attack. The target? The American infrastructure.

Cell phone connections were sporadic. Electrical power was failing. Mortar attacks on major fuel refineries had created a gas shortage, stranding travelers throughout the country. One of those stranded travelers, Jim Powell, and his group of coworkers were frantically trying to make their way home using the gear on their backs and whatever other means they found at their disposal. It was a journey racked with violent, deadly encounters and exhausting physical demands, pushing each of them to the brink of their abilities. Meanwhile, on the other side of Virginia, Jim's family was facing its own struggle as desperate neighbors began to turn against each other with increasing brutality.

In the second book in this series, Ashes of the Unspeakable, we find Jim and his group still struggling to reach home. While just a few days have passed since the initial attack, the group finds that its country is quickly descending into a vicious, chaotic landscape where nothing comes easy. While they fight to close the distance between them and their loved ones, they cannot avoid the steadily growing number of people who have realized that they can get away with whatever they want in a world where there are no longer any legal consequences for their actions.

At home, Jim's family is basically forced into lockdown after a local jail discharges its starving inmates, leading to the arrival of a new, extremely violent presence in their valley. The stranger sets his sights on driving other families from their homes and taking what they own. As Jim races home, his wife Ellen struggles to keep her family safe, while each night a neighbor's home is burned to the ground.

©2015 Franklin Horton (P)2015 Franklin Horton
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loved it.

If you like disaster and survivalist book's this is one for you. buying next now.

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Great!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was better than the first book I think. There was plenty of action and I'm looking forward to book 3!

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very good not realy a fictional story but what could very well happen be prepared for the isis attack it had happend but can be worse

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The best peppers story

Love it. A preper going through the apocalypse :)
A bit cheese with the little boy killing people left and right :)

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Addictive

I couldn't put it down! I finished this book in one sitting and can't wait to start the next. I received this book in exchange for my honest review.

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best series out of the 200 I've read

I've read this before, early on when I first started reading survivalist stuff and have just gone back and read it again as I think it is up there with my top favourites. might even be my number one favourite, maybe. I've read more than 200 books by many different authors and though with some, even some of my favourites, there are annoying characters that grate on you when you are supposed to love them or niggly annoying blips from the author like male writers forgetting the existence of emotions in their female characters, with this though, there was nothing. nothing niggles me and nothing was out of place. Some of the narrator voices can ruin a book but this guy, he makes the characters 3D and gives them even more layers. Fav author me thinks and fav narrator.

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Good listen.

Will definitely get the next instalment of this series. Enjoyed this as much as the first book.

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A very immersive series!

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Probably the only book to make me exclaim "What are you doing!" - the only problem being i was in the middle of Sainsbury's at the time.

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