Download or read book Prometheus Mode written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't hate the game, hate the gamer. For 5 gamer-hackers stuck in a live action, virtual reality arcade filled with the undead, surviving isn't enough. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices. The newly refreshed and republished series continues in the fifth thrilling installment of the best selling post-apocalyptic cyberpunk saga by Saul Tanpepper. Part gamelit, part action-adventure, this completely original hi-tech, high-stakes take on the end of the world as we know it will keep you enthralled from the very first episode to the fourteenth. Get Zpocalypto now!

Download or read book Prometheus Up Running written by Julien Pivotto and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get up to speed with Prometheus, the metrics-based monitoring system used in production by tens of thousands of organizations. This updated second edition provides site reliability engineers, Kubernetes administrators, and software developers with a hands-on introduction to the most important aspects of Prometheus, including dashboarding and alerting, direct code instrumentation, and metric collection from third-party systems with exporters. Prometheus server maintainer Julien Pivotto and core developer Brian Brazil demonstrate how you can use Prometheus for application and infrastructure monitoring. This book guides you through Prometheus setup, the Node Exporter, and the Alertmanager, and then shows you how to use these tools for application and infrastructure monitoring. You'll understand why this open source system has continued to gain popularity in recent years. You will: Know where and how much instrumentation to apply to your application code Monitor your infrastructure with Node Exporter and use new collectors for network system pressure metrics Get an introduction to Grafana, a popular tool for building dashboards Use service discovery and the new HTTP SD monitoring system to provide different views of your machines and services Use Prometheus with Kubernetes and examine exporters you can use with containers Discover Prom's new improvements and features, including trigonometry functions Learn how Prometheus supports important security features including TLS and basic authentication

Download or read book Hands On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus written by Joel Bastos and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build Prometheus ecosystems with metric-centric visualization, alerting, and querying Key FeaturesIntegrate Prometheus with Alertmanager and Grafana for building a complete monitoring systemExplore PromQL, Prometheus' functional query language, with easy-to-follow examplesLearn how to deploy Prometheus components using Kubernetes and traditional instancesBook Description Prometheus is an open source monitoring system. It provides a modern time series database, a robust query language, several metric visualization possibilities, and a reliable alerting solution for traditional and cloud-native infrastructure. This book covers the fundamental concepts of monitoring and explores Prometheus architecture, its data model, and how metric aggregation works. Multiple test environments are included to help explore different configuration scenarios, such as the use of various exporters and integrations. You’ll delve into PromQL, supported by several examples, and then apply that knowledge to alerting and recording rules, as well as how to test them. After that, alert routing with Alertmanager and creating visualizations with Grafana is thoroughly covered. In addition, this book covers several service discovery mechanisms and even provides an example of how to create your own. Finally, you’ll learn about Prometheus federation, cross-sharding aggregation, and also long-term storage with the help of Thanos. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to implement and scale Prometheus as a full monitoring system on-premises, in cloud environments, in standalone instances, or using container orchestration with Kubernetes. What you will learnGrasp monitoring fundamentals and implement them using PrometheusDiscover how to extract metrics from common infrastructure servicesFind out how to take full advantage of PromQLDesign a highly available, resilient, and scalable Prometheus stackExplore the power of Kubernetes Prometheus OperatorUnderstand concepts such as federation and cross-shard aggregationUnlock seamless global views and long-term retention in cloud-native apps with ThanosWho this book is for If you’re a software developer, cloud administrator, site reliability engineer, DevOps enthusiast or system admin looking to set up a fail-safe monitoring and alerting system for sustaining infrastructure security and performance, this book is for you. Basic networking and infrastructure monitoring knowledge will help you understand the concepts covered in this book.

Download or read book Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil written by Taran Kang and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we perceive evil? How do we represent evil? In Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil, Taran Kang examines the entanglements of aesthetics and morality. Investigating conceptions and images of evil, Kang identifies a fateful moment of transformation in the eighteenth century that continues to reverberate to the present day. Transgression, once allocated the central place in the constitution of evil, undergoes a startling revaluation in the Enlightenment and its aftermath, one that needs to be understood in relation to emergent ideas in the arts. Taran Kang engages with the writings of Edmund Burke, the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Hannah Arendt, among others, as he questions recent calls to "de-aestheticize" evil and insists on a historically informed appreciation of evil’s aesthetic dimensions. Chapters consider the figure of the "evil genius," the paradoxical appeal of the grotesque and the disgusting, and the moral status of spectators who behold scenes of suffering and acts of transgression. In grappling with these issues, Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil questions the feasibility and desirability of insulating the moral from the aesthetic.

Download or read book The Play of Space written by Rush Rehm and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space, noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial parameters of Greek tragedy as performed in the open-air theater of Dionysus. Emphasizing the interplay between natural place and fictional setting, between the world visible to the audience and that evoked by individual tragedies, Rehm argues for an ecology of the ancient theater, one that "nests" fifth-century theatrical space within other significant social, political, and religious spaces of Athens. Drawing on the work of James J. Gibson, Kurt Lewin, and Michel Foucault, Rehm crosses a range of disciplines--classics, theater studies, cognitive psychology, archaeology and architectural history, cultural studies, and performance theory--to analyze the phenomenology of space and its transformations in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. His discussion of Athenian theatrical and spatial practice challenges the contemporary view that space represents a "text" to be read, or constitutes a site of structural dualities (e.g., outside-inside, public-private, nature-culture). Chapters on specific tragedies explore the spatial dynamics of homecoming ("space for returns"); the opposed constraints of exile ("eremetic space" devoid of normal community); the power of bodies in extremis to transform their theatrical environment ("space and the body"); the portrayal of characters on the margin ("space and the other"); and the tragic interactions of space and temporality ("space, time, and memory"). An appendix surveys pre-Socratic thought on space and motion, related ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and, as pertinent, later views on space developed by Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Kant, and Einstein. Eloquently written and with Greek texts deftly translated, this book yields rich new insights into our oldest surviving drama.

Download or read book Hacked Into The Game written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a live-action virtual reality arcade in the middle of a Long Island wasteland, six people are about to be thrown into the game of their lives. And a hundred thousand undead are waiting for their first meal in a decade. Self-taught master hacker Jessie Daniels has always marched to the beat of a different drummer. She's had to, being the daughter of the man who created the often vilified Reanimation technology. While the government has made the invention nearly indispensable to millions of living citizens, powerful ArcTech has turned it into a lucrative entertainment empire. Jessie secretly dreams of tearing it all down. And when one member of her small, close circle of friends jokingly proposes physically breaking onto the island, she might just get her chance. But while she and the others soon discover that breaking in is easy, getting back out is a whole different matter. In fact, it's a hell of a killer. Hounded by mysterious villains who won't hesitate to kill, the game quickly turns into a fight to survive, and death becomes just a different way of leveling up. No longer is the ultimate goal escaping with their skin intact. Not it's defeating them and finding the secret to a potential cure. And the one person who holds it may also know the truth behind her father's puzzling murder year's before. Is Jessie willing to sacrifice everything to learn it? *Series relaunch* In 2012, master storyteller Saul Tanpepper released the riveting post-apocalyptic survival saga, GAMELAND. This popular bestselling series has been newly rebranded as ZPOCALYPTO and re-released with significantly expanded and updated content and new covers. This character-driven survival thriller is perfect for fans of Mark Tufo, Shawn Chesser, Frank Horton, and Kyla Stone. What readers have said about Saul Tanpepper's GAMELAND: "I picked this book up and COULD NOT put it down, I was sucked in from page one and I wanted to know what was going to happen to lead up to how this book started." ★★★★★ "This book was absolutely captivating, I loved every second of it. I was so attached to the characters and really felt as if I knew them." ★★★★★ "I have never read a book about zombies before, and so I jumped into this one with only movie zombies in my mind. Let me tell you, my opinion about zombies is forever changed!" ★★★★★ "Just when I thought I had it all figured out it seems that I had nothing figured out. Block out some time for this as you will not want to put the book down until you finish it, then you will want to IMMEDIATELY buy the next book." ★★★★★ "I am not one to take the time to write a review but I have to now. These books are about the best I've read and I've probably read a hundred zombie/dystopian/apocalyptic books." ★★★★★ "Edge of the seat entertainment. Well written." ★★★★★ "This book is great for the zombie enthusiast, for horror fans, or for those who just want to try something different." ★★★★★ "Surprisingly enjoyable. This is definitely an author to check out and a series to get your hands on." ★★★★★ "Saul delivers, and in spades!" ★★★★★

Download or read book Reckoning the Dead written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPISODE 12 After returning to the arcade, Jessie finds herself the target of a nationwide manhunt. But just as her would-be killers close in, the Stream network begins to glitch. Will she be able to escape? And what consequences will there be in Arc's ability to control the undead elsewhere?

Download or read book A Dark and Sure Descent written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN A DEADLY VIRUS SWEEPS ACROSS LONG ISLAND... THE DEAD BEGIN TO RISE The year is 2030. The government's experiment with reanimating the dead for use as soldiers and slaves is only a few years old. It's about to go mainstream in a very big and very deadly way. Dr. Lyssa Stemple's life is spiraling out of control. Her baby boy had died just weeks before, and her husband Ramos moved out of the house. Her daughter, Cassie, blames her for the death of her pet rabbit. And when the animals on the island start acting crazy, people point their fingers at the controversial animal research laboratory she runs with Ramos. But then a technician in her lab is brutally murdered, and she learns that she is the primary suspect. Knowing she's innocent, Lyssa tries to flee the island. But is she already too late? Is her daughter's strange behavior a symptom of the dysfunction in her family, or a sign of something far more terrifying to contemplate? A Dark and Sure Descent is the epic prequel to the highly acclaimed undead series, ZPOCALYPTO, which has been described as THE WALKING DEAD meets THE RUNNING MAN and a wholly original take on the undead genre.

Download or read book Run Boy Run written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIRE FREED HIM FROM PRISON... AND ORPHANED HER. THEY'LL NEED EACH OTHER IF THEY'RE BOTH GOING TO SURVIVE. Zander Hollis lost everything when he was unfairly tried and convicted of a murder he knows in his heart he couldn't have committed. His wife refuses to speak to him because of it, and he worries that his son won't remember who he is when his seven-year sentence has been completed. After a deadly wildfire forces the emergency evacuation of the Coujee Valley State Penitentiary halfway through Zander's sentence, he unexpectedly finds himself set free by a long-time prison guard sympathetic to Zander's need to find his brother, who was lost fleeing the rapidly spreading blaze. But not everyone is happy with the decision, including Zander's cellmate and a junior correctional officer with dubious connections to a dangerous prison gang and a vendetta he's determined to carry out. When Zander crosses paths with Willa May Sams, a fiercely independent 14-year-old orphaned by the same fire, the two clash over the seemingly unbridgeable generational divide. They'll need to work together or else risk losing everything. Unfortunately, the feds are now on Zander's trail... And they've been authorized to use deadly force to bring Zander back to justice. Run Boy Run is the second book in the visionary climate fiction (cli-fi) series SCORCHED EARTH, a near-future, survival "what-if" that's both mystery and hard-hitting suspense thriller. The story continues as Zander finds himself in the sights of a deadly pursuer. As he makes his way closer to home through a mountainous region of remote rural communities devastated by wildfire and lacking even the most basic infrastructure, Zander must avoid the deadly mobs that have emerged to exploit the chaos. In the SCORCHED EARTH sequence, best-selling post-apocalyptic author Saul Tanpepper explores what might happen if rapidly accelerating global warming destabilizes the climate enough to trigger a catastrophic cascade that will ultimately bring the world to its knees. How will local and national governments act, when more and more of the nation’s infrastructure fails? Who will rise up? Who will lead? And who will fall? Ask yourself, under these conditions, would you survive? This gripping, natural and manmade disaster survival thriller series is for fans of T.L. Payne, Kyla Stone, Ryan Schow, Grace Hamilton, Frank Horton, and A. American. * * Rated 16+ for moderate situational language and violence. * * Look for the following SCORCHED EARTH titles, available now or on pre-order: Fire on the Mountain Run Boy Run The Devil's House The Rising Son Current and future series in the CLIMATE COLLAPSE disaster survival sequence include: Scorched Earth Drowned Earth Fractured Earth Shrouded Earth Frozen Earth Saul Tanpepper is the author of the post-apocalyptic survival series BUNKER 12, and its companion series, THE FLENSE, which together tell the story of the run-up and consequences of a deadly global plague and who might be behind it.

Download or read book Live Another Play written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNING THE LEVEL AIN'T WINNING THE GAME Sure, Jessie's safe... for now. But you don't just walk away from The Game, not when there's so much more to play. But with a trail of death and destruction in her wake, will reengaging put even more lives will be at risk? Get Episode 09 in this relaunch of Saul Tanpepper's popular cyberpunk zombie apocalypse series GAMELAND, but only if you're ready for more thrills, more gore, and more of the living dead.

Download or read book The Devil s House written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THE EMBERS OF A BURNING AMERICA, BATTLE LINES ARE BEING FORGED. A NEW WORLD ORDER OF EXTREMISM AND ANARCHY IS THREATENING TO RISE. Zander Hollis is a man on the run... straight into the jaws of danger. Wrongly imprisoned but freed in the chaos of a massive wildfire, now sought by federal authorities for a string of murders he didn't commit, Zander seeks out the Defenders, an extremist militia group seeking to bring the government to its knees. The same group Zander suspects of kidnapping his brother. He's not fighting to save the country. He just wants to save his family. Willa Sams is a fiercely independent teenager newly orphaned by the blaze. She's also guarding a troubling family secret, a connection to the Defenders that federal authorities wish to use. Willa and Zander have absolutely nothing in common, and on any normal day they wouldn't have a damn thing to do with each other. But these aren't normal days. The wildfire spreading across Northern California has exploded in size and intensity. Infrastructure is collapsing. The two must work together if they're to have even the slimmest chance of surviving. And of reuniting with the people they care most about. The Devil's House is the third book in the visionary climate fiction (cli-fi) series SCORCHED EARTH, a near-future, survival "what-if" that's both mystery and hard-hitting suspense thriller. In this first 4-book series of the CLIMATE COLLAPSE disaster survival sequence, best-selling post-apocalyptic author Saul Tanpepper focuses a story with global significance on a small set of characters struggling to survive as an increasingly devastating weather pattern batters the American Pacific Northwest. But as rapidly accelerating global warming destabilizes the climate, it will trigger a catastrophic cascade that will spread to the rest of the world and bring it to its knees. This gripping, natural and manmade disaster survival thriller series is for fans of T.L. Payne, Kyla Stone, Ryan Schow, Grace Hamilton, Frank Horton, and A. American. * * Rated 16+ for moderate situational language and violence. * * Look for the following SCORCHED EARTH titles, available now or on pre-order: Fire on the Mountain Run Boy Run The Devil's House The Rising Son Current and future series in the CLIMATE COLLAPSE disaster survival sequence include: Scorched Earth Drowned Earth Fractured Earth Shrouded Earth Frozen Earth Saul Tanpepper is the author of the post-apocalyptic survival series BUNKER 12, and its companion series, THE FLENSE, which together tell the story of the run-up to, and the consequences of, a deadly global plague and the people behind it.

Download or read book Like A Dog With A Bone written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2024-12-12 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's 16, alone, and on the run. Two years after her world was turned tragically upside down, fiercely independent Willa Sams lives on the fringes of a collapsing society. She's lost everything -- her family, her home, even her dog. All she has left is hope, and that happens to be in dwindling supply. In this increasingly uncertain world, there's safety in numbers, so she reluctantly hooks up with a roving band of political and climate refugees. But that brings its own unique set of dangers, which she discovers when the group's self-appointed leader sets his sights on Willa as his next conquest. She's not interested; he's not convinced. When the promise of shared power doesn't win her over, he resorts to violence. When that fails, he threatens banishment. But here in the heart of Defender country, in the Pacific Northwest of an increasingly divided United States of America, striking out on your own is tantamount to a death sentence. Willa doesn't like being backed into a corner, and she'll fight tooth and nail to keep her own freedom. But is she willing to kill for it? DROWNED EARTH is a standalone disaster survival thriller series in the CLIMATE COLLAPSE world, and includes the following titles: Riding Out The Storm Like a Dog With a Bone (this title) Killers on the Road Families Will Die Current and future series in the CLIMATE COLLAPSE disaster survival sequence include: Scorched Earth (completed) Drowned Earth (in progress) Fractured Earth Shrouded Earth Frozen Earth

Download or read book Failsafe Codex written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one ever truly escapes the arcade The thrilling saga continues in the second deadly installment of the best-selling post-apocalyptic cyberpunk series by Saul Tanpepper!They survived hacking themselves into the script. They leveled up without losing a single life. They even managed to get back out. That is, they thought they did. But no one ever truly escapes the arcade. Welcome back to GAMELAND. Are you ready to level up? A note about ZPOCALYPTO from series creator Saul Tanpepper Gameland is the post-apocalyptic dystopian world I first created in 2011 with the publication of the short story “Golgotha,” which later became the prequel to this bestselling cyberpunk series. Originally just called GAMELAND, the series was released in eight “episodic” installments. Readers quickly demanded more, and a “Season Two”, plus a number of standalone companion titles, were subsequently published. And still my readers wanted more. I’m happy to announce that at least two new spinoff series are now in the works. Both are set within the same terrifyingly all-too-plausible near-future world. To prepare for their upcoming release, I felt it was time to update the original series. Gaps have been filled in, loose ends tied up, and unresolved questions answered. With both seasons newly repackaged into one 14-episode collection, which now includes significantly refreshed and expanded content and gorgeous new covers, I am re-releasing the stories under new branding. The legacy series is now called ZPOCALYPTO. It and the spin-offs will hereafter be incorporated under the World of Gameland banner. “Golgotha” and all pre-existing companion titles and supplemental materials for the original series will be included within future ZPOCALYPTO episodes and boxsets, so you won’t miss a single word. But if you can’t wait to read the story that set this all in motion, you can find “Golgotha” in my short story collection, Shorting the Undead and Other Horrors. Now, if you’re a returning Gameland fan, I thank you for your continuing support. It is my hope that with this relaunch, you don’t just rediscover the thrills you experienced upon reading the original series, but that this resurrection further enriches your love and devotion to the world and its characters. At the very least, rereading it as we approach GAMELAND’s tenth anniversary will hopefully prepare you for what is to come next! So grab some snacks, settle into your comfy spot, and set your phone to “do not disturb.” Take my hand and hold on tight. It’s time to enter The Game. Happy reading, Saul

Download or read book Open World Spawn written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPISODE 14 With time running out, both on the island and in the rest of New Merica, Jessie races to fix the codex. If she fails, millions will die and millions more will reanimate. But with the minutes quickly ticking away, it'll take the combined efforts of more than just one plucky young woman to bring down the most powerful company in the world and wrestle its grip from their throats. With the bodies piling up, Jessie must do what she's most loathe to do, even if it comes at a steep price. This 14th and final episode of the ZPOCALYPTO series includes the second part of INFECTED - HACKED FILES FROM THE GAMELAND ARCHIVE: Includes a timeline of key events, character watchlist, and glossary of key terms, as well as insights into the history of Reanimation technology and maps of post-outbreak Long Island.

Download or read book SCORCHED EARTH Full Series Omnibus Books 1 4 Fire on the Mountain Run Boy Run The Devil s House The Rising Son written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A convicted murderer. A teenager orphaned by wildfire. They've got nothing in common. Their only chance of surviving is by working together. Former Army Ranger and combat field medic Zander Hollis is three years into a 7-year murder sentence. He's up for parole, but someone doesn't want him to get out. While building firebreaks to protect the prison, Zander encounters Willa, a feisty and fiercely independent fourteen-year-old who takes no guff. After a flash burn forces them together, they must fight both man and nature to survive. But first they'll have to survive each other. This gripping natural and manmade disaster survival series is full of heart and heart racing thrills. The SCORCHED EARTH series consists of 4 full-length novels, all included in this convenient omnibus edition: 1. Fire on the Mountain 2. Run Boy Run 3. The Devil's House 4. The Rising Son SCORCHED EARTH is the first series in the CLIMATE COLLAPSE sequence: 1. SCORCHED EARTH 2. DROWNED EARTH 3. FRACTURED EARTH 4. SHROUDED EARTH 5. FROZEN EARTH IT STARTS WITH FIRE. IT'LL END WITH ICE. "The Aztecs believed the world would be destroyed five times— by fire first, then by wind, followed in time by floods, quakes, and darkness. They had it nearly right. The only details they got wrong were the order in which it would happen and how quickly the cycle would complete."

Download or read book The ZPOCALYPTO Book Bundle 2 of 4 written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK BUNDLE FROM THE THRILLING SURVIVAL SERIES ZPOCALYPTO INCLUDES Episode 03: Deadman's Gambit Episode 04: Sunder the Hollowmen Episode 05: Prometheus Mode Episode 06: Every Dead Player Bonus content: Velveteen (a companion novelette from THE WORLD OF GAMELAND) Bonus content: Golgotha (a second prequel to THE WORLD OF GAMELAND) LOOK FOR THE REST OF THE BOOK BUNDLES IN THIS SERIES. GET THE BUNDLE, SAVE A BUNDLE. Saul Tanpepper is the author of the post-apocalyptic survival series BUNKER 12 and the companion pre-apocalyptic series THE FLENSE. Check out his latest series, SCORCHED EARTH, a climate collapse disaster survival thriller series set in the Pacific Northwest of North America.

Download or read book The Rising Son written by Saul Tanpepper and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS INFRASTRUCTURES COLLAPSE, ANARCHY REIGNS. ONE MAN REFUSES TO LET PAST WRONGS DEFINE HIM OR HIS FUTURE. Zander Hollis is a wanted man - wanted for murders he didn't commit, wanted for murders he's witnessed, wanted for murders he's capable of committing on behalf of someone else. He just wants to go home and be left alone. Chasing him are the feds and an extremist group known as the Defenders, two warring factions in this ever chaotic world. And a terrifying wildfire separates him from his family. With society on the verge of collapse, Zander will have to decide what he values more: his country, his family, or his freedom. Fire on the Mountain is the first book in the visionary climate fiction (cli-fi) series SCORCHED EARTH, a near-future, survival "what-if" that's both mystery and hard-hitting suspense thriller. In this first 4-book series of the CLIMATE COLLAPSE disaster survival sequence, best-selling post-apocalyptic author Saul Tanpepper focuses a story with global implications on a small set of characters struggling to survive as an increasingly devastating weather pattern batters the American Pacific Northwest. But as rapidly accelerating global warming destabilizes the climate, it will trigger a catastrophic cascade that will spread to the rest of the world and bring it to its knees. This gripping, natural and manmade disaster survival thriller series is for fans of T.L. Payne, Kyla Stone, Ryan Schow, Grace Hamilton, Frank Horton, and A. American. * * Rated 16+ for moderate situational language and violence. * * Look for the following SCORCHED EARTH titles, available now or on pre-order: Fire on the Mountain Run Boy Run The Devil's House The Rising Son Current and future series in the CLIMATE COLLAPSE disaster survival sequence include: Scorched Earth Drowned Earth Fractured Earth Shrouded Earth Frozen Earth Saul Tanpepper is the author of the post-apocalyptic survival series BUNKER 12, and its companion series, THE FLENSE, which together tell the story of the run-up to, and the consequences of, a deadly global plague and the people behind it.