The Borrowed World: A Novel of Post-Apocalyptic Collapse, Volume 1 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Franklin Horton (Author, Publisher), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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In a night of devastating terror, ISIS operatives have unleashed a coordinated attack on America's infrastructure. Life as we know it in America grinds to a halt as the electrical grid collapses, communication networks are damaged, critical bridges and dams are destroyed, and major fuel refineries go up in massive fiery clouds. When the government responds by immediately halting fuel sales to the public, Jim Powell finds himself in a terrifying predicament - trapped five hundred miles from home with a group of coworkers.

With thousands of trapped travelers and scarce law enforcement, the miles between Jim and his family become a brutal gauntlet where the rules of civilized society no longer apply. As Jim puts his years of preparation and planning to the test, he is forced to ask himself if he has what it takes to make it home. Does he have the strength - the brutality - required to meet this new world toe-to-toe?

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7 hours and 54 minutes
Author

Franklin Horton
Narrator

Kevin Pierce
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July 2, 2015
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English
Publisher

Franklin Horton
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B010X8V7OG
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	7 hours and 54 minutes
Author	Franklin Horton
Narrator	Kevin Pierce
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	July 02, 2015
Publisher	Franklin Horton
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B010X8V7OG
Best Sellers Rank	#17,310 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #127 in Dystopian Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #317 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #1,760 in Dystopian Fiction

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H. Bala

"I am not a soldier. I am a paranoid hillbilly wanting to get home to my family."

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2019

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Franklin Horton is my latest binge-read. I tore thru his shared universe stuff in two weeks, except, dang it, I did it out of order, having started with the Locker Nine books, then The Mad Mick, before diving into The Borrowed World series. I'm caught up now and frustrated that I have to wait for new material like the rest of you peasants.

All's I know is Franklin Horton can write the dickens out of a post-apocalyptic novel. It's even more gratifying that these books are set in the same world, and that characters from the three series bump into each other.

It's terribly ironic that Jim Powell, main protagonist of The Borrowed World series, works for a mental health agency, seeing as he can't stand people, so I assume his empathy holds at a low ebb. When simultaneous, coordinated terror attacks cripple the nation, Jim and his five co-workers, away on a work seminar in Richmond, begin their 300-mile journey home that's fraught with, well, if you're familiar with this genre, you can figure out the challenges our party is about to face.

It's not that Jim Powell is a prepper as much as a product of hillbilly upbringing, raised on the belief that the government cannot be trusted. He comes from hardy and independent stock. He's the driving force that galvanizes his co-workers into beating feet home. He may not win the blue ribbon for nice, but he's the sort of hombre you want around when America's infrastructure collapses. And who we kiddin'? Jim Powell IS a prepper.

Book alternates between Jim's first person narration to Jim's wife Ellen's third person perspective. We observe as Ellen holds down the fort back home as she and the kids, 13-year-old Pete and 11-year-old Ariel, attempt to follow Jim's intruction manual for emergencies. My personal approval rating for Ellen kept on skyrocketing as the book progressed. She knows how to handle her business.

Chaos and lawlessness. Supply runs. Leveling up with your guns and ammo. FEMA doing what FEMA does when TEOTWAWKI goes down, or, rather, what the post-apocalyptic survival authors posit FEMA would do when stuff goes down. It's said FEMA will confiscate your guns and supplies in the name of the greater good, that all gas and diesel will be comandeered for authorized emergency vehicles. FEMA inspires such paranoia in the prepper community, and I hope they're wrong, but I'm leaning towards making sure I got my sh-- squared away, just in case. Just once, for swerve's sake, it'd be nice to see FEMA portrayed as a benevolent and capable group. I think the only time FEMA's been written as more or less a neutral force - instead of as an actively malevolent entity - is in Doreen Stalter's Allison's Secret: Post Apocalyptic Woman.

I guess you should take time to get to know Jim's co-workers as some of them will feature heavily in later volumes. But only some of them. With these kinds of books, it's a game of Russian roulette as far as which characters survive. Try hard not to get attached. But I had a soft spot for two of the co-workers: Gary, an older fellow prepper, and Randi, a no-nonsense grandmother.

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Taliferrue

Fast pace read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2022

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This is a fast paced story of a family surviving the collapse of American society. It has a plausible story line from multiple character views. I look forward to reading the next installment to see what happens.

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claudette valliere

One good action packed read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2015

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Didn't know how I'd like this one but it was a great read. Spoiler alert for those who don't want to know what's in the book.

This one starts with Imran ul-Haq. He's from Syria and he lives in the US where he has an extremely lucrative business as a plastic surgeon. Haq is watching the History Channel. A program about the failing infrastructure of America.

Haq buys six DVD of the program and sends them to his brother who's a jihadist in Syria. The DVD's that give his jihadist brother and idea that takes six months to bring to fruition.

Haq gets a coded message from his brother, pulls up stakes and heads back to Syria. Haq just brought about the ruination of America with the help of the History Channel and jihadist cells that have been in America for decades.

Jim Powell and his co-workers are at a meeting in Richmond, Va. Its a drive he's made many times in his twenty year career with his Govt job.

Powell wakes up in the morning to find the power is out in his hotel. Doesn't take long to figure out something has happened. After looking out his window he sees that traffic lights aren't working. In fact it looks like nothing electrical is working at all.

Powell checks his iPod to find that America is under attack. Seems fuel refineries, a dam and electrical transformers have been attacked and blown up all over America. The infrastructure is down all across America.

Powell tries to call his wife at home but the call won't go through. He texted her and gets an answer that they still have power but she doesn't know whats going on. Powell sends her instruction on what to do.

Powell is a prepper and he has his go bag with him. A go bag that's designed to save his life and he decides he needs to go home now.

The others in his group agree after a shootout at the Hotel where one of his co-workers is killed after a round his her in the head. He and the others make it to one of their vehicles and head for home. Home which is 500 miles away. Powell has to shoot a guy with a lug wrench who tries to get into the car with them.

His coworkers, Gary, Alice, Rebecca and Randi are appalled at what Powell did. Powell could care less. If he needs to kill to get home then that's exactly what he will do.

On the Powell home front, Ellen, Powell's wife, gets out the red folder and reads Jim's instructions. She and her two kids Pete and Alia do exactly what the instructions in the folder say.

The Powell home is almost a fortress with loads of food, a generator and loads of ways to beef up security. Security they will need when other try to take what they have.

So begins a damned fine read.

This one has Jim, Ellen, Pete who grows up in one big hurry, Alia, Gary, Randi, an Alice and Rebecca who decide to wait for the FEMA bus to take them to a camp, Jims mother and Father, a group of losers in a trailer park who want what others have, and Ellen who has no problem killing to protect her home and kids, a hike on the Appalacian Trail after the vehicle runs out of gas, gas that's impossible to beg, borrow or steal, a meeting with hikers who have no idea what's happened, two hikers Katie and her boyfriend who decide to accompany Jim and his group, to men on ATV' s who have robbed and killed other hikers, two men who try the same with Jim and his group, two men who have no idea that Jim, Gary and Randi are armed, the family out for revenge, death, murder, a Town called Crawfish and Jim Powell doing his best to stay alive get home.

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M. Thompson

Reserving my opinion for the rest of the series, book 1..eh, not bad.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 15, 2022

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The author sounds like he works for a major peppers camping and gun store,c everything is about how much he can justify carry a gun before the Apocalypse in defiance of local law which says he can't without a Concealed Carry permit..but he then justifies it by claiming he knew the Apocalypse was coming. I have seen preppers, even the most paranoid do not have fifty guns and ( per one of the books main characters) "200,000 rounds of ammo", sounds more like this book is some kind of code to some group ...there is a story but the plot is geared around the main guy, who has no military training, finding people on a well travelled trail that irk him, he makes some sarcastic remark then a fight starts and he gets to shoot off his gun and not one shot but multiple shots until he kills the offender. A little over kill really? Also the author seems insistent on naming off his camping items by brand name.... I am reserving comment until I read more of this multi book series to see if my thoughts are correct...

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Pray that it doesn't happen

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 25, 2021

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To lose power and have to return to a time of austerity and danger would be a real killer of people not used to the hard life. A good read and very well written.

JMc

Outstanding

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 16, 2015

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Outstanding book, well written and totally absorbing storyline. I became so engrossed in the story that I didn't notice if there were any typo's. I do hope there is a sequel to the book as I would like to know if the characters make it back to their homes and if Jim's family remain safe.

I won't detail the storyline as other reviewers already have, safe to say if you want to read a PA story that is very thought provoking and outlines what would happen immediately after a collapse of society this is a book for you.

hefty

Not bad for its dub-genre, but there are a few inconsistencies.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 1, 2017

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A pretty good book for its genre (I read a fair few of these type books as a sub-genre) the initial reason for the 'collapse' was a bit cliched and not really believable, and I don't believe the descent into chaos would happen anywhere near as quickly as it did, but the characters were ok, and their dialogue was fairly realistic, even if they were a bit blaise about so much death in a short time span. I will read on in the series, which is not often the case with this kind of fiction

Amazon Customer

Very very very readable really enjoyed it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 10, 2015

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This book is really enjoyable. The characters very believable and you want them to succeed. The steady deterioration of the situation makes great sense, as world deteriates hour by hour day by day. There are no character extreme people to be on the journey all believable. I am really looking forward to book two

batbinbogbloke

Very good, tense, believable story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 10, 2015

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Very well written, enjoyable, tense story with believable characters. Would have given five stars, but book is too short (book two appears to be of similar length also). Recommended nevertheless.

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