Nine Meals

Publisher : Fishtail Publishing

ABOUT Mike Kilroy

I have been a journalist by night (I am a sportswriter) for two decades and a novelist by day (and late, late night) for a year. I have written three fiction novels: Nine Meals, The 17 and my latest foray into fiction, Solo.

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***** 2014 B.R.A.G. MEDALLION WINNER FOR EXCELLENCE IN INDIE PUBLISHING *****

When the sun belched and the power grid failed, it was only nine meals until the end of the world.

Billy "Shep" Shepard always thought the apocalypse would come from an asteroid with a funny name, or a super bug, or a nuclear war, or even Yellowstone blowing its top. It came from none of those things. Instead it came from an angry sun in the form of the biggest Coronal Mass Ejection mankind had ever seen - and it slapped the human race back a century.

In these grim times, people kill for food, water and weapons. They scratch out a feeble existence after "The Ejection." But not Shep. His biggest question each day in his underground bunker is "Cheese Ravioli, Beefaroni or SpaghettiOs?"

Shep soon discovers that nothing in this new world is guaranteed. He and Antigone, a girl he rescues, are forced to take a perilous journey across an unyielding landscape toward the one place rumored to be unsullied by the disaster. Along the way they must overcome hunger, disease, desperation and death while running from a man who wants nothing more than vengeance.

PRAISE FOR NINE MEALS:

Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," but with more depth and much more suspenseful, "Nine Meals" is going to delight both fans and non-fans of the genre. - New York Book Pundit
Anyone who loves smart apocalyptic fiction will be in their glory with Nine Meals. -- Amazon reader
This is not a science fiction story but a very believable future biography of our world. I highly recommend this story, especially if you are a fan of George Orwell. -- Amazon customer

The Story Behind This Book

I always thought the end of the world would come not from a super bug or an asteroid with a funny name or Yellowstone blowing its top, but from people. People are the most dangerous thing in the universe and this book explores that. When people go nine meals without food, they become desperate and destroy.

Praise and Reviews

From the get-go, "Nine Meals" by Mike Kilroy is entertaining and impossible to put down because of all the plot twists. - Book Beast

The sci-fi story's characters are well drawn and contain enough moral conflict in a post-apocalyptic world to bring the reader right into their heads. And I didn't want to leave until their plot lines were resolved and the world was adjusted to its new normal. - Herald-Star online

Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," but with more depth and much more suspenseful, "Nine Meals" is going to delight both fans and non-fans of the genre. - New York Book Pundit

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Other Book(s) By Mike Kilroy

The 17

Solo

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