Table Of ContentPraise for J.L. Bourne’s
DAY BY DAY ARMAGEDDON
“There is zombie fiction and then there is crawl-out-of-the-grave-and-drag-you-
to-hell zombie fiction. Day by Day Armageddon is hands down the best zombie
book I have ever read. J.L. Bourne blows all other zombie writers away. Dawn
of the Dead meets 28 Days Later doesn’t even come close to describing how
fantastic this thriller is. It is so real, so terrifying, and so well written that I slept
with not one, but two loaded Glocks under my pillow for weeks afterward. J.L.
Bourne is the new king of hardcore zombie action!”
—Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Patriot and The
First Commandment
“Day by Day Armageddon is a dramatic spin on the zombie story. It has depth, a
heart, and compelling characters.”
—Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Ghost Road Blues
“Day by Day Armageddon claws at the reader’s mind. Bourne’s journal is a
visceral insight into the psyche of a skilled survivor.”
—Gregory Solis, author of Rise and Walk
Also by J.L. Bourne
Day by Day Armageddon
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Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Author’s Note
Aftermath
Hobby
Tower of Charles
Crude
Semper Fi
Klieg Light
Siege
C4I
Cutter
Exodus
Dragonfly
Icarus
Caller
Night Run
Caddo Lake
Chain Gang
Boots
Deer Hunters
Dead Drop
Thread the Needle
Sniper
Sticker Price
Buggy
Lights Out
Bridge of No Return
Rally
Home
Hurricane
CVN
Author’s Note
The first volume of Day by Day Armageddon took us deep into the mind of a
military officer and survivor as he made a New Year’s resolution to start keeping
a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity,
day by day. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the
prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the
dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve.
After surviving numerous trials and travails in the first volume of Day by Day
Armageddon, the protagonist and his neighbor John escape the government-
sanctioned nuclear annihilation of San Antonio, Texas. They eventually find
themselves holing up in an abandoned strategic nuclear missile base known by
the former occupants as Hotel 23. After their arrival they receive a weak radio
transmission: A family of survivors are taking refuge in an attic, with untold
numbers of undead below. A man named William, his wife, Janet, and their
young daughter, Laura, are all that remain of their former community. After a
miraculous rescue, this family joins forces with our protagonist to stay alive. But
that may not be enough in a dead world, an unforgiving postapocalyptic place in
which a simple infected cut, not to mention the millions of undead, can easily
kill them, adding them to the overwhelming undead population.
The situation brought out the worst in some . . .
Without warning a band of brigands, seeing targets of opportunity, mercilessly
assault our survivors inside Hotel 23, planning to kill them for the shelter and the
vast supplies inside. Narrowly pushed back at the end of the novel, the survivors
fear these men might return in much greater numbers—unless the countless
millions of unrelenting undead close in around them first.
This novel begins where the first novel left off, with our narrator and a few
survivors of an unimaginable worldwide cataclysm taking refuge inside Hotel
23. Follow them as they continue their journey into the apocalypse and just
imagine for one moment that any one of them could be you.
Welcome back and lock your doors . . .
J. L. Bourne
J. L. Bourne
