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"Southlands (Lee Harden Series (The Remaining Universe), 10) by DJ Molles

https://www.amazon.com/Southlands-Lee-Harden-Remaining-Universe/dp/107025200X/

Book number ten of a eighteen book apocalyptic science fiction series.
The series is segmented into eight books (two of the books are
novellas), six books, and four books. I read the well printed and well
bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published by D. J. Molles
Books in 2019 that I purchased new in 2025 from Amazon. I own book 11
in the series and will read it soon.

Captain Lee Harden of the US Army is a member of the US Special Forces.
His duty is to live in his remote US Army built home with a steel and
lead concrete bunker underneath it. Any time the US government gets
nervous, he goes down into his bunker with his dog and locks the vault
door. He then talks with his supervisor daily over the internet until released by his supervisor to leave the bunker. His duty is to stay in
the bunker during any event and come out thirty days after he has zero
contact with his supervisor. Then it is his duty to find groups of
people to restore order in his portion of the USA.

Then one day, Captain Harden has been sitting in his bunker for a couple
of weeks and his supervisor does not call. A plague has been sweeping
the planet and things are getting more dire by the day. Apparently the infected do not die but their brains are mostly wiped out. Zombies. A
month later, Captain Harden and his dog emerge from their bunker to find
a total disaster with infected roaming the countryside.

Captain HardenrCOs home and bunker were burned out after everything to eat
or shoot was stolen by a gang of bad guys. But he has a secret, he has
ten bunkers built by the U.S. Army strategically located around South Carolina. And only he can open the bunkers. But the bad guys are
chasing Captain Harden to get the rest of the food and ammo from him.
And nobody trusts anybody.

Captain Harden is recovering from his injuries at one of his bunkers.
But Fort Bragg still needs diesel fuel to patrol, make the fence
electricity to keep the primals out, and run the tractors planting the
fields making their food. A cartel from Mexico has moved into Texas and
has restarted one of the refineries. But they are selling the diesel to
the fake USA President, not the eastern seaboard states.

The author has a website at:
https://djmolles.com/blog/the-remaining-universe-reading-order

My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,370 reviews)

Lynn

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