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Apache Dawn: Book I of the Wildfire Saga Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Marcus Richardson (Author), James Romick (Narrator), The Freeholder Press (Publisher)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,600 ratings
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Ten years after the deadliest pandemic in human history, the same devastating strain of influenza strikes America without warning. One man holds the key to stopping the deadly outbreak in its tracks and the governments of the world - including his own - will stop at nothing to find him.

From Los Angeles, to Boston, to the Northern Rockies - follow Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, and average Americans as they struggle to save America and themselves. Apache Dawn is the story of America's fight for survival against a terrible virus, foreign invasion, and political intrigue.

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  1. Listening Length
    18 hours and 26 minutes
  2. Author
    Marcus Richardson
  3. Narrator
    James Romick
  4. Audible release date
    December 6, 2015
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    The Freeholder Press
  7. ASIN
    B018Y26V26
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 18 hours and 26 minutes
Author Marcus Richardson
Narrator James Romick
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date December 06, 2015
Publisher The Freeholder Press
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B018Y26V26
Best Sellers Rank #356,095 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#367 in Medical & Forensic Thrillers
#769 in Medical Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#1,408 in Military Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals)

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4.3 out of 5 stars
4.3 out of 5
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Steven Bouchard
5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars just doesn't cut it. Ten stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2016
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So, I've read a number of books in this genre. I've been seriously impressed by this writer and two others.

This writer/author really has it all together to write this great book with a tremendous amount of knowledge, skill, research and an unexplained volume of top notch wisdom. While fiction, the author has unexplained sage and immaculate superiority in this genre which seems to have been lost since the late 60's.

I was born in 1953. This author seems to have been born in the 1600's, 1700's, and so forth!

I am not one to plug books into another author's reviews. However, I will do so, here. This author is TOP NOTCH in this genre. While I love books, 5 stars by Amazon standards, I find this author and 2 others to be at the top of their fields above and beyond the standard 5 stars, I love it, to be ten stars above and beyond all else.

Thus I think there are 3 top notch author's above and beyond all others. I think this author's followers will continue with the books; I will!!! The other authors are Nicholas Antinozzi for Desperate Times and Kate Morris with the McClane Apocalypse. I only add these two as I believe that readers of this genre will appreciate all 3 writers. So different but so remarkable. Oh!! I just bought this author's second book.

I wonder what would happen if these 3 author's got together to write one book!??!!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great story
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2024
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This is a very interesting and imaginative story. I really felt that the characters were well described and believable. Too bad it's the first book in a series. I prefer to read stand alone books.
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Murphy
5.0 out of 5 stars Can the USA survive a bio weapon attack and a surprise invasion?
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2018
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Really enjoyed this book! The story starts as a weaponized virus hits the east and west coasts. Unfortunately, 10 years before a similar virus killed thousands of people before the source for a vaccine was found.
As the story unfolds we follow a team of Navy Seals striving to find the enemy who released the virus and started the invasion taking place on both our coasts.We follow a team of Rangers as they hunt for and then fight to protect the ‘source’ whose blood can be used to once again produce a vaccine. We also follow a completely incompetent President who was put in office by the shadowy figures who started the whole mess and get him hooked on on a hypnotic drug to manipulate him.
We follow Danny Tecumseh, a Native American teacher who lost his wife to the first pandemic and a host of other characters as they fight the virus and the North Korean and Russian invasion.
This is a great story with wonderful characters and an amazing storyline. Half way thru this book I purchased the other two books so I could continue listening without interruption!!
You can’t go wrong if you like apocalypse fiction , action and adventure books.
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Russ H
5.0 out of 5 stars great book
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2023
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Not sure how I’ve missed finding this series for so long but I’m really happy I’ve found it now.
Great book.
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Leon Hanouille
3.0 out of 5 stars Not for young adults.
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2016
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Apache Dawn -- Book 1 of the Wildfire Saga by Marcus Richardson

This is a great book -- exciting, intriguing, fast paced, engrossing, well developed -- but not for young adults, for two reasons: one, the lack of honor and integrity among the principal characters in the government (there are other good characters for whom this does not apply) may cause disillusionment in young, impressionable minds that have not yet learned to separate fact from fiction; two, the extremely poor GSP (grammar/spelling/punctuation) is a bad example for a generation that is already challenged to express itself articulately and correctly in writing.

I would give this well-written story a 9 out of 10. My objection about the lack of honor and integrity really does not affect this review. I don't like that he did it; I don't agree with it; I don't think it's credible; but that story-line is the author's choice. The story is definitely different, engrossing, exciting, etc., as stated earlier. The U.S.A.'s susceptibility to the types of attacks highlighted in this book should concern all citizens, especially in an election year. The parallel developments of the individual tales are well coordinated, consistently maintained, and eventually brought together (although some could argue that the ending is too much of a cliff-hanger meant to encourage reading the next book(s) in the saga).

The presentation of the story, however, the GSP (grammar/spelling/punctuation), merits only a 4 out of 10 and is the reason for the 3-star rating. That disappointing performance is all the more disappointing because the author graduated from law school and really should be better. (Computerized spelling checkers cannot detect homonym errors, verb tense errors, parallel construction errors, possessive errors, or a host of other common writing failures.)

So....although it is a great story, I now have to decide whether my curiosity over its resolution in the next two book outweighs the anticipated pang of enduring more GSP failures.
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Tina Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in Canada on August 23, 2019
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Scary to think it might be prophetic:(
Looking forward to continuing the rest of the series at some point in the future
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Ann Horne
5.0 out of 5 stars Grippping tale
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2018
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I downloaded this free, with nothing to lose but time if it was not interesting, but have been too busy reading book II and book III to leave a review before now! I am only writing this now because I am on lunch break at work and do not like to buy things on the work computer, otherwise I would now be reading the next book in the series. A gripping tale with well written characters who you are soon attached to, I highly recommend you start to read now, and join the SEALS in their comradeship. There are also several well written civilian characters, too many to mention all, although Denny in particular will probably become a favourite. It is an all too believable story unfortunately. I do love the free downloads, such a good way of finding new authors who quickly become favourites and who you do not then mind paying to continue reading. Hooyah!
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Ishan Vyas
4.0 out of 5 stars Cool
Reviewed in India on March 24, 2018
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Nicely written war story focused on the US soil with a mix of science and action. Worth reading once for sure.
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Sandy
5.0 out of 5 stars Get ready for an enjoyable ride
Reviewed in Australia on December 2, 2019
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Really enjoyed these fast paced books with all the different characters, twists and turns with never a dull moment. I am just starting book 4 of the series which tells that it is still very enthralling and entertaining and have downloaded book 5 to be ready. To the author, well done, the books have been a pleasure to read.
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V Neely
4.0 out of 5 stars Good and bad
Reviewed in Canada on December 25, 2017
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A meaty, fast-paced read. I enjoyed it until I got to the last page and it just ended with no resolution. One thing I didn't like was all the unexplained acronyms. They pulled my attention off the story.
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