Corporate Survival - The Zombie Apocalypse

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Corporate Survival - The Zombie Apocalypse is the second book in a series depicting the ongoing battle between survival and extinction after the collapse of the United States Government.
The series allows you to follow along with a group of like-minded people who have joined together to form a corporation for their mutual survival.
Unlike other nations that have collapsed in the past, the United States was different in one major way - over half of the population was dependent upon their government.
Small family farms were all but extinct, giving way to Big Agra, leaving just three days of food in the pipeline for over three hundred million people.
After the collapse of the Government, the “Free Shit Army” turned on their masters. Tens of millions of people found out that they were unable to provide for themselves after generations of dependency. When the welfare and handouts stopped, the FSA fled the inner cities, laying siege on those who were prepared and self-sufficient.
Their hunger drove them like a swarm of locusts, laying waste to the countryside, devouring everything - leaving nothing in their wake - not even the dead.
Their overwhelming numbers, combined with desperation to feed, proved too much for even the most hardened Prepper and it was only a matter of time before the Zombie Army reached the Compound at SURVinc.

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erm, @C.T.Horner I see that you are the author of said publication.
yes I see that it is free but your link also included encoding that will over ride the Survival Monkey affiliate identity cookie that may lead to your cookie possibly siphon affiliate sales from our group.

This was probably not intentional, but if you want to advertise a product/service/etc.
You will need to run this past @melbo or one of the @Moderators

Thanks for your understanding.

VT

 

Minuteman thanks for your honest review.

To touch on a few points, you are absolutely correct the first book was written to set up and support the next two and possibly three. As for Mitchell running the show, without consultation, and micromanaging in the beginning, this was deliberate. Before the SHTF that is how the compound was run. As the Board members rarely if ever showed up. He literally had to do everything himself. When the SHTF Mitchell went right on leading unchallenged. The members followed him out of desperation, they were in shock and looked to their leader for direction. The way I saw it was the corporation was started to operate in a SHTF environment, but it was never tested. Only after the first conflict was over and they had the winter to settle into a routine did the board first meet. Very few of the board members get any ink because they are nameless investors that don’t participate in the day to day operation of the compound. The only shareholders that get ink are the ones that work for the corporation. Or do something that is integral to the story. You are correct I should have put some time in on this so the reader would understand.
Thanks for pointing it out. Most of the structure and pros and cons of how the corporation runs comes out in book 3. I allude to it without giving it away in the first chapter, which I included at the end of book 2.

I also dropped the ball with Jack in the farmhouse. My intent was to lead the reader to believe Jack was dead or dieing, and his captors believed this as well. They were also preoccupied with the arrival of the package. As well as the way their leader ruled, failure was not an option. Every man was engaged in the immediate task at hand. After you pointed it out and rereading it I can see where I went wrong and I intend on correcting it.
Thank you again.

You are also 100% correct as for creative license to move the story along. It was a trade off I chose on day one. I wanted a page turner and I think I got one. I actually cut many of the weapons descriptions for this reason. For example, on my first draft I went into great detail on SAW’s and their combat efficiency as force multipliers. When they went dry, I also cut out the fact they could use regular magazines, because it wasn’t important at the time, the battle was over for them for a while, the reader just didn’t know it yet. I wanted to push the reader ahead, and keep their attention.

In other areas I intentionally left out or deleted sequences and details, to force the reader to use their imagination to fill in the gaps. Thus forcing the reader to get engaged. A good example would be Jacks first rifle, it was depicted in many scenes, but never described beyond a Bolt action 308. This was intentional, to force the reader to imagine a rifle of their own choosing.

With the reader fully engaged, they are more likely to tolerate a bit of detail they would otherwise loose interest in. In book three I will have more freedom to elaborate, because of this.


Thanks again, your review is spot on IMHO, and I truly appreciate you taking your time in writing it.
CTHorner.

 

I read them both and also did some long reading sessions to do one more chapter.

I concur on the point about Jack's escape being too convenient. Better to leave it out than spoil the suspense and character with it.

Also really liked the concept of a corporation formed for SHTF survival. Very interesting and potential to go many directions. But I am hoping they stay on the path to figuring out how to be successful and moral while doing what needs to be done.

Thank you for putting in some serious editing effort. One of the cleanest reads in the genre. Much more fun to read a carefully honed writing.

Also appreciated a decent amount of story for its normal price ($4?). Please keep at it and I appreciate you are responding to feedback. Just stay away from the conveniently easy scenarios for the main character. May work for a minor character or even the bad guys, but the protagonist has to earn our respect whether he wins or fails.

 

Thanks for the honest feedback it is well needed and appreciated.
As for the scene with Jack in the farmhouse, I will be the first to admit I missed the mark there.
The chapter in reference with the scene in question was added to give Jack a bit more depth. It was initially written with Jack out hunting in the next valley when he stumbled upon the Norks building a dirty bomb.
In order to bring out Jack’s character more and show some depth, It was changed to where his daughter is assaulted in an attempted rape. He was denied an opportunity to hunt the assailants down, But after speaking to his wife, and her need for revenge he went out after the men. That solved two things it allowed the reader to see a dark side of Jack and it allowed Jack to discover the Norks plot. Also it was meant to show Jack was not a hand to hand expert. If you recall he was loosing a knife fight, to a drunk Probie in the previous scene. If it weren’t for the Norks shooting his opponent Jack would have died right there. Where I dropped the ball is I failed to convey to the reader that the Norks thought they had so grievously wounded him he was barley alive and likely dieing, when they brought him back to the farmhouse. I needed him in the farmhouse to witness their plans. Once that was accomplished he needed to get back to the compound in time to allow SURVinc. a chance to stop them considering the distance and the lack of transport for the troupes.
Corporate Survival is a series, that grows upon itself, as each new book is released the characters are developed more and the challenges get harder, and the books get longer.
Now as for Jack’s future I can assure you in book three Corporate Survival TEOTWAWKI life gets much harder for him, as well as for everybody.
As for SURVinc. like all forms of governance it works until it doesn’t. I hope you continue to follow along as we explore TEOTWAWKI together.
Thanks again CTHorner.