On Zero Day of the first and last cyberwar in human history, the internet went dark, transport and power grids collapsed, and cities began to starve.
Sydney Morning Herald.
The Age If there was a Booker for explosive alternative history techno-thrillers with guts and brains, it would be a cinch.
Weekend Australian Birmingham\'s status as a leading action-adventure novelist continues to grow.
Sunday Times Mesmeric readability.
Time Plenty of grist and humour.
Birmingham displays an exuberance and virtuosity that is positively Clancyesque.
But does such a place exist? And what if they need to sacrifice their very humanity in the struggle to reach it? Praise for John Birmingham\'s novels.
A safe place where the madness hasn\'t penetrated.
All of them are seeking sanctuary.
And slowly, cautiously navigating the inland waterways of California, Jodi Sarjanan and Ellie Jabbarah negotiate an apocalyptic landscape of burning skyscrapers and marauding gangs.
On the far side of the continent, in the Pacific Northwest, Jonas Murdoch helps lead the good folk of Silverton in defending themselves from waves of starving and desperate refugees pouring out of Seattle.
This second instalment of John Birmingham\'s End of Days trilogy finds James O\'Donnell and his friends Rick, Michelle and Melissa hunkered down in the wilderness, where they know a horde of starving, desperate exiles from the graveyard of the US East Coast is heading their way.
Ten days later, millions have died from thirst and starvation, from violence and from the simple failure of the world\'s machines to keep them alive.
On Zero Day of the first and last cyberwar in human history, the internet went dark, transport and power grids collapsed, and cities began to starve
