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Fire From the Sky: The Sanders Saga Kindle Edition

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Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by N.C. Reed Clayton Sanders left home the minute he had his high school diploma in hand. He waited that long only because the Army wouldn't accept him without one. Now, ten years later, he's home. Home with no warning, no advance notice, no anything after being gone ten years with almost no contact with his family. Home carrying a secret that is burning him up from the inside. A secret that has pushed him to the brink, forcing him to become a criminal in order to be where his family needs him to be, even though they don't realize it yet. Because Clayton knows something they don't. Something that hasn't happened, but will. Something that will burn everything it touches. And change the face of the world forever. PROLOGUE They didn't have real names.Well, they had them of course. They just didn't use them. Not here. They were known by names their comrades had chosen. Names that suited their personalities. Names that only mattered to them. The men of CTG 31 were the kind of men that didn't exist in the modern, civilized world. There was no place for them in an enlightened society. Except when that society needed them. They were the kind of men who visited dark places in the middle of the night, doing violence to those who preyed on the weak and the helpless. Rough men, yes, but honorable. They had a code of their own, these men, and they lived by it as if it were a writ from a Higher Authority. No one broke that code, that set of unwritten rules that kept them from sliding over the edge. Kept them from becoming like those they hunted. Like those they were pursuing right now. “We're about twenty, maybe twenty-five minutes behind, Boss-man” The man known as Boss-man stopped, hand raised in a fist. Those following halted and spread out without being told. “Status?” Boss-man asked tersely. He was angry. They were all angry. Something they had to guard against in their business. Keeping things strict and orderly helped. “Still on the trail for now,” the scout replied. “Continue,” Boss-man ordered and waved his hand forward. The squad of men behind him began moving again. They were in a hurry today. Before dawn a group of terrorists had attacked a small village that the squad had befriended. Or that had befriended them. The men of CTG 31 weren't sure which was the case. They did know that the people of the small village known as Home had become their friends. The village had become a place where they could relax, even if only slightly, and be people for just a few hours at a time. A place of sanity in a world that had lost it's own. And that place had been violated. People they knew had been killed. Children they had grown to care for taken, herded toward a fate that no one in their group wanted to consider. Someone had to pay for that. Someone would pay for that. Dearly. They had been in pursuit for hours, running the entire way. Hard men who pushed themselves to be harder still, banking that toughness against a day like today. A day of reckoning. Had the attackers known the kind of men they were offending, it's entirely possible they would not have committed the atrocity. They were not brave men, these thugs known as terrorists. By nature terrorists were cowards, using fear and intimidation to force their will upon those too weak to resist them. But they hadn't known, and so they had attacked a place that was sacred to this squad of hard, violent men. And in so doing had assured that they, themselves, would not see another day on this mortal plane. Time meant nothing as they ran. There was only the objective and nothing else. A dozen pairs of eyes roamed the country around them, missing nothing as they moved. Twice the one called Boss-man had raised a hand, the men behind once more spreading out and taking position. The halts lasted mere seconds as he communicated with their scouts or eyed some anomaly that had attracted his attention. Then they were moving again.

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Clayton Sanders left home the minute he had his high school diploma in hand. He waited that long only because the Army wouldn't accept him without one. Now, ten years later, he's home. Home with no warning, no advance notice, no anything after being gone ten years with almost no contact with his family. Home carrying a secret that is burning him up from the inside. A secret that has pushed him to the brink, forcing him to become a criminal in order to be where his family needs him to be, even though they don't realize it yet. Because Clayton knows something they don't. Something that hasn't happened, but will. Something that will burn everything it touches. And change the face of the world forever.

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Bandits. Forest fires. Cannibals. Material shortages. Family problems. Why had Clayton Sanders expected these issues and others like them to be absent from life at the end of the modern world? It had sounded good anyway. His plan had been simple; dig in, hunker down, and wait it out. He knew that society would go through a 'reset' period before things settled down. He knew people would suffer during that time, but also knew he couldn't stop it. He couldn't help the world around him but he could try and keep his family and closest friends safe. Maintain at least a semblance of normalcy for them. And then his family had gotten involved.

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New Threats Continue to Emerge....

Friendly fire. Two words no soldier ever wants to hear. Having ended the threat of his father's oldest enemy and the group he controlled, Clayton Sanders believes he can finally put his feet up a bit and relax. Figuratively of course, since there is no relaxing on a farm and ranch. But some peace and quiet will be greatly appreciated and welcome. Too bad he won't get it.

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Book One: The Sanders Saga

Clayton Sanders left home the minute he had his high school diploma in hand. He waited that long only because the Army wouldn't accept him without one. Now, ten years later, he's home. Home with no warning, no advance notice, no anything after being gone ten years with almost no contact with his family. Home carrying a secret that is burning him up from the inside. A secret that has pushed him to the brink, forcing him to become a criminal in order to be where his family needs him to be, even though they don't realize it yet. Because Clayton knows something they don't. Something that hasn't happened, but will. Something that will burn everything it touches. And change the face of the world forever.

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Book Two: Brotherhood of Fire

By the most ludicrous of means, Special Ops Soldier Clayton Sanders had a warning that something was going to happen to the world. Clay prepared for the worst, but just because you're well prepared doesn't mean everything is going to be okay. Clay has faced some of the worst humanity has to offer in all parts of the world, but now he is faced with something much worse than terrorists. His family. Having returned home at great cost to himself, Clay has prepared his family as best he could in secret, but now that the crap has actually hit the fan, things aren't going as he had hoped. Having planned for his family to shelter in place at their farm and ride out the worst of the disaster, Clay and his friends must adapt quickly and make a new plan on the fly. Faced with armed gangs and a leader who shocks them all, how will things play out for Clay and the others, especially when his own family members can't seem to remember the plan and continuously make things hard on him?

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Book Three: Trial by Fire

The world has stopped turning. Well, most things in the world have stopped turning, anyway. Clay Sanders, his friends and his family thought they were prepared for the immense Coronal Mass Ejection that literally turned off the lights in most of the world, turning First World nations into pre-industrial nations in a matter of hours. No more phones, television, motor vehicles, radios, or GPS. The United States has gone from following the most popular celebrities on social media and worrying about the latest fashions to simply trying to survive. The winter has been relatively quiet for the Sanders clan and their new neighbors, and they have used that time to firm up their plans and their position. They are confident now that they are on the right track. But there are much bigger problems on the horizon that will make their trials look immaterial in comparison. Things are about to heat up around the Sanders ranch, and winter hasn't even officially ended yet!

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Book Four: Firestorm

Bandits. Forest fires. Cannibals. Material shortages. Family problems. Why had Clayton Sanders expected these issues and others like them to be absent from life at the end of the modern world? On top of everything else, who shows up? Tax collectors. Maybe things haven't changed so much, after all. Now he has to defend his family farm from an old enemy of his father and prevent him and his army of miscreants from taking the very things Clay and the others need to survive. All in a day's work here at the end of the modern world, right? With the dig in and hunker down plan now truly shot to hell, Clay and his friends are going to have to face some rough odds in defending their family and home. Fortunately, this isn't the first time they've faced such a thing. Their enemies don't have a clue what kind of Firestorm they're about to ignite.

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Book Five: Home Fires

“No plan survives contact with the enemy.” An age old idiom that Clay Sanders knows very well. In this case however, it's surviving contact with the people who are supposed to be on his side. Family that can't accept the reality of their new situation, soldiers who follow orders selectively, and 'friends' who essentially sell you down the river. No one ever said the end of the modern world would be boring or uneventful. The 'Citizen's committee' is still out there somewhere, there are apparent rogue nomadic elements of some kind that are raiding anyplace that still has food or resources, and because of certain betrayals they now have to step up training of every individual on the farm from the age of sixteen on up just to be able to protect themselves. Clay just might have had enough of trying to protect a farm full of people that apparently don't want to be protected, even if a lot of them are his own family. And then, there's that radio call. . . .

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Book Six: Friendly Fire

Friendly fire. Two words no soldier ever wants to hear. Having ended the threat of his father's oldest enemy and the group he controlled and with the remainder of his old team on their way, Clay starts to think he might be able to breathe easier and finally put his feet up a bit and relax. Some peace and quiet will be greatly appreciated and welcome. Too bad he won't get it. He has heard no news from outside their immediate area, forcing him to rethink his initial plans for isolation of the farm from others. But his friends find trouble much closer to home as they make their journey to join Clay and the rest at the ranch, uncovering a threat that Clay hadn't known existed. Their arrival also awakens old prejudices and attitudes that will lead to a fracture among the ranch residents, and that fracture will in turn bring vicious enmity among people who had been friends only days before.

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Book Seven: Hostile Fire

Clay Sanders never seems to run out of problems. His grandfather and mentor is slowly succumbing to old age, his health failing. His mother has more or less stopped speaking to him. The nearby town that was his boyhood stomping ground is struggling to get back on her feet with the farm's assistance, but the town also has elements that have a strong dislike for Clay and don't mind making it known, even to the point of outright lies. It seems as if someone is always thinking they are somehow entitled to 'their fair share' of everything the Sanders have worked for over a half-dozen generations. No matter how much they help, it's never enough. Now there's a destructive survivalist group that has terrorized rural areas to the south and is now looking toward Clay's neighborhood as their next conquest. Their motto is simple; if they can take it, they deserve it. Yes sir, problems are one thing that Clayton Sanders never seems to run out of. Even at the end of the world as we know it.

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Book Eight: Hell Fire

Doom. Devastation. Death. Destruction. It seems that no matter what direction he looks, Clay Sanders can see little else. He has tried to maintain at least a small oasis of safety for the people closest to him, but that bubble is constantly threatened by those who want it for themselves, or else want to deny it to Clay and his family and friends, even though it belongs to them. The farm has already suffered, but what they have seen thus far has been nothing but a warm up. Things are about to reach a new level and there is absolutely nothing Clay or his friends can do to stop it, or even slow it down. Clay knows that, as do the other former soldiers. The others are about to learn it the hard way. Friends will betray, family will suffer, brothers will bleed and die. Hard work and sacrifice will be lost to hard feelings, envy and strife. Even at the end of the world as we know it there are some who seem to think the world revolves around them and no one else.

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Author's Best Novel- M.Shaw

Good apocalyptic books have been few and far between lately. This latest by Mr. Reed is easily the best I've read this year. Hopefully, the start of a series.

The book deals mainly with a family's prepping for a nebulous disaster sometime in the near future. After first thinking it might be nuclear war, plans turn to surviving a CME. Near the end of the book, the event does occur and indeed turns out to be a massive EMP.

I look forward to the next book. I give this one my highest recommendation.

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N.C. Reed doesn't really exist. He's just a figment of someone's imagination. But if he was real, they would imagine him as a gray haired curmudgeon who likes pecan pie entirely too much. He would be a constant source of annoyance to a loving and doting wife. Despite that, the mutant Doberman would spend much time in his company as he writes. Or as he pretends to write in order to get people to leave him alone. Or as he sits by the window and wonders who that is driving down 'his' road. Or when he just locks himself in his study and pretends no one is calling his name. He would enjoy hunting and fishing if he could do it comfortably and only in good weather. He would enjoy working in his yard, except when it was cold. Or hot. Or he didn't want to. Or if it weren't so much actual work. He would enjoy field trips of a historical nature such as Civil War battlefields and Colonial settlements, if they weren't so far away and require an overnight stay to visit. Being an avid Tennessee fan, he would enjoy games at Neyland Stadium, if there weren't so many steps. Or if there was an escalator. Or a hover board. A big one. Most of all, he would enjoy creating stories that interest others. Stories that people would want to read again and again. That they would want to share with others. He would enjoy entertaining others and creating a world outside of reality to relax in, even if it were just for a few hours. And he would be grateful to those who followed his works and were kind enough to tell him so. It would be those people that he wrote for. If he was real, that is. . . .

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0722T3G6P
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Creative Texts Publishers, LLC (May 18, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 18, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3416 KB
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N.C. Reed doesn't really exist. He's just a figment of someone's imagination. But if he was real, they would imagine him as a gray haired curmudgeon who likes pecan pie entirely too much. He would be a constant source of annoyance to a loving and doting wife. Despite that, the mutant Doberman would spend much time in his company as he writes. Or as he pretends to write in order to get people to leave him alone. Or as he sits by the window and wonders who that is driving down 'his' road. Or when he just locks himself in his study and pretends no one is calling his name.

He would enjoy hunting and fishing if he could do it comfortably and only in good weather. He would enjoy working in his yard, except when it was cold. Or hot. Or he didn't want to. Or if it weren't so much actual work.

He would enjoy field trips of a historical nature such as Civil War battlefields and Colonial settlements, if they weren't so far away and require an overnight stay to visit. Being an avid Tennessee fan, he would enjoy games at Neyland Stadium, if there weren't so many steps. Or if there was an escalator. Or a hover board.

A big one.

Most of all, he would enjoy creating stories that interest others. Stories that people would want to read again and again. That they would want to share with others. He would enjoy entertaining others and creating a world outside of reality to relax in, even if it were just for a few hours.

And he would be grateful to those who followed his works and were kind enough to tell him so. It would be those people that he wrote for.

If he was real, that is. . . .

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2017
    This is a great book and well worth the price. At some level this is a fantasy: what would you do if you had a lot of money, a farming family, and future knowledge of a coming apocalypse? And yes, as some have commented, sometimes this book does feel like the 'shop-pocalypse' since about half the book deals with laying in supplies. Which is why it is pretty amazing the that book is so gripping! The characters have sufficient complexity to be mostly believable (and interesting enough that you don't mind it when they're not). The dialogue is consistently good with lots of variability, believable family banter, and humor. It helps the whole book feel 'real'. The characters are human and have enough flaws that you don't assume that everything will go well for them. I was impressed that even the extended shopping sequence actually felt tense. When I finished this one, I immediately moved onto the sequel and enjoyed it as well.

    If you like your prepper fiction as thinly-veiled how-to, this book probably won't top your list. The author skips a lot of technical details and the characters make some errors - in the second book they often talk about what they overlooked in their preps. If you're thinking of what you would do in the same situation (which is half the fun of the shop-pocalypse sequence), you'll have some quibbles. But all of this makes the book more readable and fun as a novel. If what you're looking for a good read, this is better than 90% of what is available.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2017
    One damned fine read. Spoiler Alert.

    This one starts with Clayton Sanders returning home. A home he hasn't been to in a decade. A home that was in Calhoun County, Tennessee. His family ranch was close to the small town of Jordan about twenty miles from Peabody a much larger town thats the Calhoun County seat.

    Sanders was a black ops operator with the Army. He and his team, CTG 31, have been all over the world, Iraq, Afghanistan and were currently in Africa. They had befriended a village. A village that was hit by men who killed anyone they could and took all the kids with them when they left.

    Sanders knew that his Army handlers wouldn't approve of he and his team going after the kids. His team volunteered to a man and so they went after the kids without authority. Once they found them, they killed the enemy and returned the kids to the village.

    One of the elders told Clay that he needed to go home. The elder was the village shaman. He told him fire from the sky was coming. He also took him to a cave that had drawings. Drawings Sanders to be premonitions of 9-11 and other disasters. Some of those cave drawings were thousands of years old.

    Sanders and his team decided home they would go. They were all discharged on a general by their handlers after they saved the kids without authority.. Something the Army would have never allowed. Before they left they hit a warlord and killed he and his men. They found a fortune in gold, silver and gems. They split it twelve ways and then headed for home. Clay and his team were thinking that fire in the sky meant nuclear war. How wrong they were.

    Once Sanders got home after getting a ride with a trucker who had served. Clay went to the local diner. Lorries, which served the best cheeseburger he'd ever eaten. While there three black men came in and tried to shake down the owner, Doug, for protection money, The waitress, a woman Clay knew from his high school years, Amy Walters walked right into the middle of things. One of the men grabbed her and Clay knocked the piss out of him and the two with him. One of them had a knife and tried to stab Clay, a highly trained Clay who used the man, his hand and knife to stab his attacker to death with his own knife.

    Once the police arrived and Clay and the witnesses were questioned. Clay was released and finally headed for the Sanders Ranch which was home. Deputy Greg Halloway another old friend gives him a ride and also gives him the low down on what's been happening for the past ten years.

    Clays Father Gordon and his Mother Angela were more than glad to see him. Of course Clay can't tell them why he was really home because none of them would have believed him. None of them would believe Clay took the word of an African Shaman and gave up his career to get home.

    Clays Grandfather, Leon, who everyone calls Old Man, knew something was up and finally got Clay to tell him just what that something was. Leon had been many things in his eighty-two years and some of those things were less than legal. Leon has loads of money and he and Clay started buying what they would need to survive the fire in the sky.

    So begins one damned fine read. Waiting for number two.

    This one has Clay, Leon, Angela his mother, a mother who will try to set Clay up with a "good" girl from a "good" family, a Clay who ain't playing that game, Gordon his father, Jake Sidell, his daughter and German Shepherd Bruce, a Jake who will become their mechanic and be invited to the farm, The Troy ranch which Clay buys on his first day back and begins to set up for the rest of his team who he knows is coming, a Clay who is already buying what they will need and storing at Troy, a Clay who is selling the gold he has for paper money and spending it while he can, a Clay who knows the paper money won't be worth squat once the fire in the sky hits, Greg Holloway and old friend who's an Deputy in Jordan, Marla Jones and old friend of Pa's, Amy Walker and her daughter, Clay's brother Robert and wife Patricia, Robert owns his own radio and computer business, Patricia is a certified Nurse Practitioner, their daughter Abigail who works as a fire fighter for the Forestry department , his son Gordy who's a senior in high school, his sister Alicia who's a complainer, Robert Alicia's husband who's a heavy equipment operator and a man with more brains than his wife, their genious twins Deuce and Leanne, two fifteen year olds that Clay will depend on to get things right, a Clay who is instrumental at planting time, the Sanders farm that has chickens, Black Angus cattle and horses, a Clay who has his own home built on the family property, a nice A frame with a cellar, a Leon who introduces Clay to some of his own business interests, a business interest called The Kitty Kat Club which is a club that Pa owns, Brick the bouncer another person who will be invited to the farm, a woman named Lainie Harper, a woman who runs the club for Pa, a woman Pa helped out of a bad situation, a woman who strips when needed, a woman Clay will take as his own, the rest of his team that arrives and Clay Sanders doing his best to prepare everyone, save who he can and stay alive.

    Five Stars and then some.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2023
    I binge read the 13 books currently available in this series in a fairly short amount of time. So this review is probably more of a series review, but in most series, if you like the first, you end up reading them all.

    This book, and the series, starts out with a bit of action that kind of hints at what's to come. This book, and all of them in this series, are excellent stories, well told, with characters the reader can really like (or dislike as appropriate), and the character development throughout the book and the series is excellent.

    The main characters have certain advantages most of us would not have in a post apocalyptic world, but most books and movies entertain us with situations that we all would dream of. It's the nature of being entertained and none of that in this book or series are enough to cause me to roll my eyes.

    If I had one complaint about this book and series (and I DO have just this one complaint) is that it needs better editing, not from a story telling point of view (that is excellent), but from a spelling and basic mistakes point of view (and I'm not referring to the "plain speaking" of some of the characters). That said, it really doesn't distract that much from the book, story, entertainment, but it's enough to make me withhold the 5th star in this review. At the very least it would benefit from a good beta-reading team.

    All that said, I highly recommend this book and this series if you like the PA genre. It's WAY out at the head of the class and is in my top 5 or 6, which is hard to do. If you like the genre, read it.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2024
    This is my second time reading this book. It’s been a long while since the first time. I caught things I missed the first time. I thoroughly enjoyed it again. I love the characters, the storyline, and the style of writing. Looking forward to the rest of the series starting today with book 2!
  • Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2024
    So glad I found this series. If the rest read like Book 1, I will have won the Kindle lottery. Excellent story, great characters, and overall a sobering reminder of what could happen.
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2024
    Starts a little slow, but after reading the first book, I can see why. Great story line. Makes me wonder what I would do. Pays to have money.
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2024
    Well written reminds me of Sean Liscom "the Ranch series" good characters and a nice pace! Can't wait to read book 2!

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  • Matt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Series and you should read it :)
    Reviewed in Canada on August 1, 2019
    I am a big fan of the post-apocalyptic genres and thoroughly enjoyed N.C. Reeds take on this. This is not the standard formulaic EMP now I have to walk 100s of miles home... I was hooked after reading the first book which was a fresh take and filled with lots of good character development, suspense and of-course action and mayhem. While the book title "The Sanders Saga" is not too gripping, ignore that and jump in. I was only upset that I enrolled in Kindle Unlimited AFTER I purchased each book separately. :) I am patiently waiting for Book 8 to read more of this series. Having read this I also read the authors Parno series. Another set of great books in a different milieu. I am waiting for Book 5 there!
  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well written and all too possible
    Reviewed in Australia on June 10, 2019
    The mix of characters is good. How it all proceeds will be interesting to read. Very realistic so far, as the veneer of civil society unwinds.
  • Anne Marie Cairns
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very impressed
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2021
    Really good book.. What I liked was it starts the story before anything has happened. The race to get everything ready and in place before the solar mass hits the earth. Lots of dry humour and character's that will be interesting to get to know as the story evolves. Well written and definitely worth reading , this is the first book I have read by this Author and I'm impressed so far .
  • AddyL
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
    Reviewed in Australia on June 25, 2018
    Really enjoyed this book. Excellent storylines abd a variety of realistic characters. Every grpup always has at least one annoying person. Lol. All the great people make up for them.
  • Longtime reader
    4.0 out of 5 stars A good start
    Reviewed in Canada on September 28, 2020
    Some familiar characterizations, but the main players are fairly well fleshed out. The African mystic bit is sketchy, however it does provide a starting point. I’ll read book #2.

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