Blackout War Series

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Brutal Reset Summary

He spent his whole life protecting others. Then the war broke him. Then the pills. Then prison.

Jake Mitchener is a combat veteran who lost everything: his career, his marriage, and his freedom. He was finally putting the pieces back together when the lights went out across America.

No warning. No explanation. Just silence where civilization used to be.

As Memphis collapses into violence and chaos, Jake's survival skills are the only thing keeping him and the people around him alive. But staying alive isn't the same as getting home, and home means Kelsey, his ex-wife, fighting her own war four hundred miles away in a Tulsa hospital that's running out of everything.

And in Washington, Jake's brother Blayne knows what the rest of the country doesn't. He's running out of time to stop what's coming next.

This wasn't an attack from outside.

This was a brutal reset.

Brutal Reset is book one of the Blackout War Series, a gritty, character-driven post-apocalyptic EMP survival thriller that readers call, "the best apocalyptic book I've read."

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  • Book 1

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    • A Post Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Blackout War Series, Book 1)
    • By: T. L. Payne
    • Narrated by: Phil Gilbert
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-26
    • Language: English
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  • Book 2

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    • A Post Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Blackout War Series, Book 2)
    • By: T. L. Payne
    • Narrated by: Phil Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-26
    • Language: English
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  • Book 3

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    • A Post Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Blackout War Series, Book 3)
    • By: T. L. Payne
    • Narrated by: Phil Gilbert
    • Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-26
    • Language: English
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