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Another Thrilling Novel!

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

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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Leslie preston

Good but off a bit

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022

It was an ok book, a little slow in places but too perfect. I enjoy thus author but not this book so much

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Diane E Kimbell

Another Thrilling Novel!

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

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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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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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Mike Keller

My worst fears brought to life! The New Madrid fault complex raises its voice - loudly.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2020

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Other than when I was in the service, I've lived my entire life on the northern edge of an earthquake fault zone and didn't know it until one morning in 1968. I was working night stock at a local grocery and had just crawled into bed that morning. I heard a roar and a loud bang. That irritated more than concerned me because we live near an Air Reserve base and we were constantly assaulted by sonic booms from jets practicing overhead. A couple cracked windows were already victims to supersonic war games. That morning was a bit different though. The roaring became a rumbling and something threw me out of bed into the middle of the room. The room was wobbling like a bad night out. Mom was screaming downstairs but I couldn't get my feet under me to get up. It only lasted a couple minutes, but it was the longest, most terrifying couple of minutes I ever experienced before or since. That was my introduction to the New Madrid fault zone and I learned it was only magnitude 5.5! Part of the foundation of the house was cracked, and a large crack ran through the hearth and chimney of the fireplace.

All that terror, the feeling of helplessness, total loss of control, was built up and boils from the pages, from the lives of the characters that experienced the days in the near future when the New Madrid Seismic Zone cleared an accumulation of pent up pressures in a mighty shaking and shuffling. The Atwood family - Jack, Jill and their two kids: Tate, 15 and Emily, 12 and the Chandlers - Tony and Beth, 3 year old Anthony and one on the way, are the main characters. Beth and Jill are sisters. Jack and Tony are business partners. Beth and Jill are preparing for the Holiday festivities in their Memphis homes. Tony and Jack are holding seminars for their business in their St. Louis office. Their world is going to be shaken - roughly.

The characters are brilliant! They convey the emotions and responses that could be expected in apocalyptic events such as your whole world shaken, stirred and fried! This is one terrific read!

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RickyAnn

A page turner.

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

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I could not put this book down until I had read it from cover to cover. I had never known about the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Learned a lot while reading this book. I have to read more from this author.

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Leslie preston

Good but off a bit

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022

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It was an ok book, a little slow in places but too perfect. I enjoy thus author but not this book so much

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