The Dark Times: Part One - The Beginning
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Jerry D. Young
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- More Great Stories by Jerry D. Young
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- Cowboy
- Home Sweet Bunker
- Habitat
- The Liddy Scenario
- Scavenger
- A Penny for Your Thoughts
- Ozark Retreat
- The Dark Times
- The Keys to the Kingdom
- Disaster in the Burbs
- Shipwrecked
- And many more! ABOUT AUTHOR JERRY D. YOUNG Author Jerry D. Young has been a fixture in the survival and prepping communities for more than twenty years. The author of more than 100 novels and short stories, Jerry’s writing has been a staple for men and women of all ages and from all walks of life that are interested in prepping, survival, and all-around self-sufficiency. Jerry’s books are written with the goal of educating as well as entertaining and generally enjoyed by all who seek to expand their knowledge of prepping and survival topics while enjoying a good book or short story. As daunting as the end of the world, nuclear fallout, World War III, Civil unrest, economic collapse, solar flares, EMP attacks, and other apocalyptic scenarios may be, society has always been interested in the “What If?” of a Post-Apocalyptic World. Jerry’s stories provide interesting and practical perspectives of heroes and villains navigating Post-Apocalyptic scenarios including everything from Mad Max type of events to more relevant plot lines that seem as if they could have come from the headlines of the modern world.
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- Jason
- 12-23-23
virtual voice is horrible
virtual voice is the worst thing that has ever happened to any audiobook. seriously audible you can't be this cheap
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- Jerry Chen
- 12-29-23
Lifeless voice and story
Bored me outa my mind, this AI voice thing is just terrible and well the story was honestly just as lifeless.
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