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THE RETREAT #6: FORLORN HOPE Available!

May 20, 2022 by Craig DiLouie 5 Comments

Written by my writing partner Stephen Knight, THE RETREAT: FORLORN HOPE, the last episode of our brutal “zombie” series, is at long last available for Kindle at Amazon. I’ve received a lot of letters asking when it would be coming out–thank you for your patience! The book is out, it ends the series with a hell of a bang, and you’re going to love it.

Based on the classic Greek story THE ANABASIS, THE RETREAT is about a battalion of light infantry that evacuates Boston during a horrific pandemic that compels its victims to seek out inflicting or receiving pain, which delivers excruciating pleasure–and makes them laugh and laugh. As America collapses around them, the lost battalion travels south toward Florida, where the last bastion of the government is holding out. If you read them in order, they were #1 (I wrote), #2 (Stephen Knight), #3 (Joe McKinney), #4 (me), and #5 and #6 (Stephen Knight). In this last episode, we find out if they make it, and what it means for humanity.

Stephen is an ace at the military procedural, and the result in an episode packed with non-stop gritty, violent, authentic action that is not for the squeamish. Here’s the Amazon description:

The road has been punishing.

Traveling from Boston to ill-fated Fort Drum, then on to Philadelphia, and again to Mount Weather and Fort Stewart, the First Battalion, 55th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division (Light) is run out, blown out, and virtually waiting for death’s embrace. Now at the border of Georgia and Florida, the battalion receives new orders:

Encamp at Moody Air Force Base…

…and call in the Klowns.

Lieutenant Colonel Harry Lee knows this will spell the end of the battalion. But executing the mission could mean the the difference between life and death…not for the 1/55th, but for what remains of the United States of America.

Lee took an oath when he enlisted with the US Army. But he hadn’t thought it was a suicide contract…

Check it out here.

Filed Under: Apocalyptic, Books, The Blog, The Retreat Series, Zombies

THE RETREAT 4: ALAMO Now Available in Audiobook!

April 21, 2020 by Craig DiLouie 2 Comments

I’m pleased to announce my apocalyptic horrorfest THE RETREAT 4: ALAMO, part of THE RETREAT series I co-authored with Stephen Knight and Joe McKinney, is now available on audiobook, narrated by the great RC Bray!

Description:

During the long retreat out of Philadelphia, First Battalion arrives at High Point Special Facility, the Alamo of the U.S. government. Lt. Colonel Lee secures the fort built around the facility but learns of an outbreak in the underground bunker, where the U.S. government is hiding. The President has been infected.

While thousands of laughing infected lay siege to the facility, Sergeant Muldoon, Corporal Rawlings, and a platoon of lightfighters go deep into the bowels of the earth on a deadly mission: terminate the President of the United States.

The President is waiting.

If you like brutal survival horror and military versus zombies action, this is the series for you.

Get it here or at Audible.

Filed Under: Apocalyptic, Books, The Blog, The Retreat Series, Zombies

THE RETREAT 5: CRUCIBLE Now Available!

August 30, 2018 by Craig DiLouie 4 Comments

the retreat 5The fifth episode in THE RETREAT series is now available! Authored by me with the great Stephen Knight and Joe McKinney, this series follows a lost battalion crossing a plague-devastated America to reach the last major bastion of the U.S. government.

After securing High Point Special Facility, Colonel Lee and his lightfighters of Tenth Mountain have been shot up, run out, and worn down. But another mission awaits—roll to Fort Stewart and extract Dr. Courtney Moreau, one of the engineers of the virus now devastating humanity, and whose immunity promises a fast track to a vaccine.

The bad news: Fort Stewart is under siege.

Stephen Knight wrote this episode following my ALAMO episode, and it’s packed with riveting military versus zombies action.

Check it out here.

Filed Under: Apocalyptic, Books, The Blog, The Retreat Series, Zombies

THE RETREAT Series Audiobook Omnibus

May 28, 2018 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

retreatTHE RETREAT series, my zombie/apocalyptic fiction series co-authored with Stephen Knight and Joe McKinney, is being produced as audiobooks by the great R.C. Bray, who does his usual fantastic job with narration. The series chronicles the collapse of society due to a horrifying virus that turns ordinary people into savage, sadistic killers, and the long retreat of a lost battalion trying to make it back in time for civilization’s last stand.

Now the first three books are available as an omnibus, providing 14 hours of entertainment!

Get it here.

Filed Under: Apocalyptic, The Retreat Series, Zombies

THE ANABASIS Inspired THE RETREAT

July 15, 2016 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

xenophons-anabasis

THE RETREAT, the military apocalyptic thriller series I’m writing with Stephen Knight and Joe McKinney, tells the story of a lost battalion of light infantry that must journey through a dying America to find the last bastion of the federal government. It was inspired in part by a remarkable tale called THE ANABASIS, which also inspired other works such as the book and film THE WARRIORS.

Written by Xenophon, a Greek mercenary, THE ANABASIS tells the story of a 10,000-strong professional army of Greeks who must fight their way out of the Persian Empire. The term “anabasis” means an expedition from the coast into a country’s interior.

anabasisThe army, called the Ten Thousand, are hired by Cyrus, who rebels against his brother Artaxerxes II. At Cunaxa, battle is joined. Though Cyrus wins a tactical victory, he’s killed during the fighting. The Ten Thousand are now stranded deep in the Persian Empire surrounded by enemies. Through treachery, the Spartan general Clearchus and other leaders are killed or captured. Xenophon and two other officers elected by the army lead the Ten Thousand north and then west back toward Greece. Internal politics, local diplomacy and constant fighting marked their long march.

Xenophon’s account proved a sensation in Greece. Some historians theorize it later inspired Philip of Macedon to believe that a small but superior army could defeat the Persian army and conquer the empire. The story is uncorroborated but is considered an account of true events.

Click here to read it online.

Filed Under: Other History, The Blog, The Retreat Series

THE RETREAT #1 Discounted to $0.99

July 8, 2016 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

THE RETREAT by Craig DiLouieThe RETREAT #1: PANDEMIC, the first episode in the military apocalyptic series I’m writing with the great Stephen Knight and Joe McKinney, is now permanently discounted to $0.99. Average 4.5 star rating on Amazon, 110 reviews. If you enjoy military zombie fiction, you can’t go wrong with this series. THE RETREAT #4: ALAMO is now out as well. Enjoy the apocalypse!

Get it here.

Filed Under: Apocalyptic, The Blog, The Retreat Series, Zombies

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