Without Warning

John Birmingham

Feb 2009 · Del Rey

About this ebook

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Birmingham's After America.

In Kuwait, American forces are locked and loaded for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent is close to cracking a terrorist cell. And just north of the equator, a sailboat manned by a drug runner and a pirate is witness to the unspeakable. In one instant, all around the world, everything will change. A wave of inexplicable energy slams into the continental United States. America as we know it vanishes. From a Texas lawyer who happens to be in the right place at the right time to an engineer in Seattle who becomes his city’s only hope, from a combat journalist trapped in the Middle East to a drug runner off the Mexican coast, Without Warning tells a fast, furious story of survival, violence, and a new, soul-shattering reality.

Ratings and reviews

Started reading this book the day before yesterday. Finished it (all 533 pages) this afternoon. A real page turning novel of apocalyptic fiction. If you liked Niven & Pournelle's "Lucifer's Hammer" or "Footfall," you'll like this. It's page after page of the world (of the year 2003) unraveling. A lot of military action/characters, but in a way that is interesting and educational. General Tommy Franks and Bill Gates are even minor characters! Also some good action/espionage/shoot-em-up action scenes. Very realistic. Take it on a long flight!

This was a pretty good story to read. The character development was excellent, and it held my interest. Recommended.

I loved this book. I could not put it down.

About the author

John Birmingham is the author of Final Impact, Designated Targets, Weapons of Choice, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, How to Be a Man, The Search for Savage Henry, and Leviathan, which won the National Award for Nonfiction at Australia’s Adelaide Festival of the Arts. Birmingham is also the recipient of the George Munster Prize for Freelance Story of the Year and the Carlton United Sports Writing Prize. He has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, Playboy, and numerous other magazines. He lives at the beach with his wife, daughter, son, and two cats.