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48 Hours
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Publisher's Summary
From The New York Times best-selling author of the smash hit One Second After series comes 48 Hours, a nail-biting and prescient thriller about a solar storm with the power to destroy the world's electrical infrastructure.
In 48 hours, the Earth will be hit by a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun, a "Carrington Event" that has the power to shut down and possibly destroy the world's electrical infrastructure. To try and prevent permanent damage, everything goes dark prior to the hit: Global communications are shut down; hospital emergency generators are disconnected; the entire internet, media broadcasting, and cell phone systems are turned off.
Will the world's population successfully defend itself in the wake of the CME, or will mass panic lead to the breakdown of society as we know it?
William R. Forstchen is at his best in 48 Hours, a tale of the resilience of American citizens when faced with a crisis.
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- Trent Quilter
- 14-11-2021
Good book, with realistic drama
was a good book buy I found it repeating itself sometimes, the narrator is great although when he speaks as the older gentleman in a few spots It was abit slow, as an older person would probably speak but I just found myself wanting him to hurry up with what he was trying to say. good book overall and performance.
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- Hamish
- 18-12-2022
Painfully Slow at Times
Dogmatically christian at times. I can handle that in American books, by and large. But my god, was this one slow. I get that it was building up to the end, but did it have to be that repetitive? How many times does the poor scientist need to be asked the same question? Arrrrgh.
But it wasn’t awful. Just not his best.
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- Allison
- 16-01-2023
What Would You Do?
Mr Forstchen, as usual brilliant. A so perfectly plausible view of humanity at it's worst and best.
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- Dr. Fiona Robinson
- 09-02-2019
I enjoyed it
I enjoyed this book and production. Have the bad reviewers ever written a book and have it published!
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- Carol Welsh
- 16-10-2021
Fantastic apocolypse build up
Another frighteningly real apocalyptic scenario that could could conceiveably happen called an Extinction Event. You will go the way of the fossils unless you are wealthy and know the right people, which gets you a place in a bunker city. This a a build up to an N.E.E. near extinction event thats well written and full of interesting characters who we like or dislike and.... pity. It kept me interested and i enjoyed it immensly. I dont want to include spoilers so just trust me I highly recommend this book. Thank you Audible. 😊💖👍🏼
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- Ana Thompson
- 12-02-2022
amazing
loved every minute of it. good rate of reading and the expression is amazing. would highly recommend
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- Nick
- 21-10-2021
Great story well researched.
Great story well researched. Captivated me and was engaging all way along. Hope there is one about life after the event.
You could tell the writer tried really hard to write a quality book and succeded is it perfect no but so what, what is perfect!
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- Anonymous User
- 02-11-2021
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great book and truely insightful view on how humans would react to having only 48hrs left. sadly I was looking forwards to a 1yr later chapter that never came... sadly this is often the case and the author left the reader on a bit of a cliffhanger about what the world would be later.
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- Willow
- 29-03-2022
"Don't Look Up"
Not quite the same story, but if you enjoyed that movie, you'd probably like this book.
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- Jason G Cody
- 06-11-2021
great
a really good well balanced telling of a disturbing scenario. with hopefully how the best part of human nature would win through
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