Militia - Berserkers

by R J Murray

Overview

Jack had a good life. He had left the farm to his brother and happily went to his dream job, fixing peoples mistakes in programing machine codes. Well, OK, it wasn't his dream job, but he liked it and he was very good at it. He stayed as far away from the family farm as he could, even missing the birth of his niece. She was now twelve and he was finally going back for a weekend, just a weekend, to say hi and meet her. Pity that was the weekend the aliens decided to invade Earth.
The meteor shower took out his room and killed his brothers wife and daughter. Most of the town was destroyed and only a few people survived. Then the crazies started killing people and a strange new disease took out a few hundred more.
Jack decides to see who else survived and leaves the farm, heading home to the city. He finds that the attack was widespread, with few survivors to be found. Eventually he hooks up with an Army relief unit. Survivors in the camp are a curious mixture, of young and old, with only a few between teenage and forty. Any older and they go senile or crazy. Crazies kill anything and eat it. They eat people too.The odd thing is that only men become Crazies.
Soon the camp becomes crowded and supplies are low. Jack must lead the group back to the one place he does not want to be. The family farm. Without farmers they are going to get very hungry and Jack knows that he may be forced to return to the farm for good.
Fortunately more Army troops are needed, not only to fight the Crazies, but to attack the newly landed alien ships. Jack is pegged to head up the militia, to defend the farms and carry the attack against the invaders locally, while the real Army goes up against the ships and the Crazies digging in around them. It's better than plowing and he seems to have a definite advantage. It could be those pesky alien nanobots tuning up his brain or maybe it's just skills learned growing up in the country.
New tactics are introduced by the military to counter the aliens and their Crazies, Unfortunately, after each attack by the human forces, the aliens counter with a different offensive tactic and the Crazies aren't so crazy anymore. They are getting smarter and more adaptable, the nanobots in their skulls tuning them up as they learn about humans. Its going to be a long, hard war, with no quarter and no mercy. Too bad the crazies have started taking prisoners

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044997080
Publisher:	R J Murray
Publication date:	09/21/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	232 KB

About the Author

R J Murray was born on a small farm in central Kentucky in the early fifties. Growing up in the country gave him a love of nature and a dislike of shovelling manure, as well as the certain knowledge that goats were smarter than dogs and cows were dumber than rocks.
After moving to Florida with his family, he returned to Kentucky each summer with his siblings and first heard about organic gardening as a teenager. Manure finally had a purpose. Winters were spent attending school on Florida's east coast and he returned to Kentucky after graduating from High School in 1969, where he got a job flipping burgers while he attended the local branch of the University of Kentucky. His free time was spent reading Science Fiction from the Golden Age, hunting, fishing and gardening. Hobbies have included history, spelunking, geology, as well as many different home crafts such as cross stitch, leather work, making mail armour and baking. At age fifty-nine, he accepted a challenge from his wife. (With your wild imagination, it should be easy for you.)
He wrote his first novel in fifty eight days, changed the title many times, and ended up with a manuscript of two thousand pages which eventually became the first books in the series, Tales of the Triad.