New Madrid Earthquake is a stand-alone disaster thriller from international best-selling author Bobby Akart, one of America's favorite storytellers who has delivered up-all-night thrillers to readers and listeners in 245 countries and territories worldwide.

Two hundred years ago, several faults within the New Madrid seismic zone along the Mississippi River ruptured triggering some of the largest earthquakes in American history. The three massive quakes ripped open America's Heartland, shaking residents as far away as New York City and Washington, DC, while ringing church bells in Boston and Charleston, South Carolina.

Akart's stand-alone novel New Madrid Earthquake is based on actual events. It just hasn't happened yet, until now. Two hundred years later after the historic quake sequence of 1811-12, it's reawakened.

The New Madrid fault zone, six times larger than the San Andreas in California, has generated a series of massive earthquakes thrusting the Atwood and Chandler families in a fight to survive. Attorney Jack Atwood and his brother-in-law, Tony Chandler, are winding up their year-end tax-planning presentation atop The Met, a skyscraper in St. Louis, before returning to Memphis for their family's Christmas celebration. Jill Atwood, her daughter, Emily, and teenage son Tate are in a downtown Memphis performing-arts theater attending the dress rehearsal for Emily's Christmas pageant. Beth Chandler, 28 weeks pregnant, together with her three-year old autistic son, are traveling from Louisiana to join the rest of the family in Memphis.

Will they arrive for Christmas? Will they arrive at all? Their lives are about to change forever.

Prepare to be shaken.

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10 hours and 21 minutes
Author

Bobby Akart
Narrator

Stacey Glemboski
Audible release date

December 10, 2020
Language

English
Publisher

Crown Publishers Inc.
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B08Q62SN4K
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	10 hours and 21 minutes
Author	Bobby Akart
Narrator	Stacey Glemboski
Audible.com Release Date	December 10, 2020
Publisher	Crown Publishers Inc.
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08Q62SN4K
Best Sellers Rank	#43,914 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #217 in Hard Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #741 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #1,610 in Mystery Action & Adventure

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Tudi

This is a must read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2023

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This fictional tale is the most realistic story rooted in scientific facts I've ever read! What if previously ignored mid America fault lines blasted into horrible consequences! You will not be able to put this down! Incredible events racing into reality with no stopping to catch your breath! I'd love a second story!

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Diane E Kimbell

Another Thrilling Novel!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2023

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Once again, Bobby Akart has taken liberty with an incredible scenario and mastered a “what if” that provokes the reader’s mind and expands the imagination. I finished in record time and closed the book with a sense of awe at the perception of the author. Loved it! Highly recommend for anyone who wants a thrill ride.

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Excellent read novel based on facts

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2023

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I taught catastrophic earthquake preparedness for Red Cross and I was impressed with the incorporation of accurate facts and scenarios, I moved from California to Cape Girardeau MO and traded the San Andreas for the New Madrid. Great characters rising above catastrophic events

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Kindle Customer

Good read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 6, 2023

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This is a short read that makes you aware of mother natures wrath.

I enjoyed the characters. Learned some survival tips.

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SUITE T

Probably The Best Book I Have Ever Read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2023

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This book grabs you from the beginning, and you’re awe struck, wowed with the non-stop heart stopping action, drama. I loved the characters struggles and triumphs, along with some heroic failures. Please read this book! I’ve been read,2 or 3 books a week for years and this one is one of the Very BEST!

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Turner

Good

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2022

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Fast paced & interesting. I liked the inclusion of God in the story. Suspenseful. The only bad guy was the earth awakes.

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PaPa

Good read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 9, 2022

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The time line of this story is short, just a few days, but the content is good and very descriptive without being overly so. Also the research was good and presented well without being overly in depth.
I liked that the story showed glimpses of humanity at its worst without delving into the horror of a disaster of this magnitude. Good read from a very human and compelling perspective. Thank you!

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Love and Devastation in the Heartland.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 16, 2020

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Bobby Akart has done it again and this time in spades!!!! The New Madrid Fault is special for me since I was born and raised in Missouri and my Maternal Grandmother was from St. Louis, I have always been interested in the New Madrid Fault line. It was part fear and part astonishment that this was not on the west coast or some far away country but right in my back yard.

Bobby has researched the area and the New Madrid Fault line in great depth and is spot on as to the damage area and the destruction this little heard of and even less feared fault line would inflict on our country.

He has created some of the best characters yet in Jack, Jill, Beth, Tony and the children. They are family and that is what matters most to them. They will go through hell and high water, no pun intended, to reach home for Christmas knowing that if any of the others survive they would do the same.

St. Louis and the Gateway Arch is also a landmark I have gone to and ridden the elevator to the top. Bobby took me back to my trips to and up the arch and made me very thankful the Fault didn’t act up while I was in it.

The Fault line spreads from Cairo Illinois to New Madrid in Missouri through parts of Arkansas and West Tennessee including Memphis but that is only the tip of this monster Ice Berg. It will affect Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Mississippi and will be felt far further than that.

This is Bobby Akart’s first stand alone novel and he couldn’t have done any better than this. I loved the book and the attention to detail of a disaster and location I was very familiar with. More importantly he wove a tapestry of fortitude, love of family and selfless caring for other people. He showed the height of dedication a police officer would go to helping two husbands attempting to reach their families and the love and fortitude two wives had in protecting each other and their children both born and unborn.

I rank this as perhaps Bobby Akart’s best work yet and that is indeed high praise if you have read any of his other stories. I love the fact this is his first stand alone novel but hate the fact that I will not be able to follow Jack, Jill, Beth, Tony and the children as they rebuild their lives in a new and devastated landscape. Five Stars Bobby. I can’t wait for your next book.

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Mr. M. D. Horne

Just what you'd want from a disaster novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 19, 2022

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A very well written, easy to follow book about a catastrophic earthquake hitting central USA. For someone who loves disaster movies and novels, it really is spot on as it follows the members of one family from their ordinary lives through the initial tremors and into and through the main quakes.

There is some strange almost-fantasy stuff sprinkled in, which I thought was unnecessary. It's barely mentioned but sticks out a mile. Just stick to the raw reality of the situation without talking about butterflies...

Apart from that, which is a minor quibble and doesn't affect anything plot wise, this is a perfect read for fans of the genre.

Tess

Gripping.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 9, 2022

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This book is an exceptional read, it was so well written and easy to read. I was engrossed right from the first page. It was a constant non-stop, full-on, in your face disaster story. I loved the characters, they were so believable, and had a good mix of seriousness and humour. I really felt like I was there beside them, I was holding my breath when they were, my face was screwed up when they were hurt. I highly recommend this book.

Michael G. Annis

Great Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 22, 2020

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Think this is Bobby’s best yet. Great characters and the action scenes are so accurately described. A rip roaring tale, literally, that carries you along a very bumpy ride. Sometimes the treacle is thickly applied but as he said, Bobby is a romantic. Would love to know how the Atwood family survived.

Julie carter

Page turner

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 2, 2021

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Lots of information to process but do e so you can understand it all. You really get a feel for what you would experience if you were caught in an earthquake. The characters are really good and you become involved in their struggle and want to.will them on to survive.

stones of fire

Get ready for a bumpy rife

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 13, 2020

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A Great new story from Bobby,a great deal of research has gone into this book
you can almost feel the ground shake under your feet. A good.stand alone novel.

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