The First Bird

Episode 3

By: Greig Beck

Narrated by: Sean Mangan

Matt Kearns and the remnants of the scientific team return to a ravaged America. Modern medicine has failed to halt the spread of the flesh-consuming parasite, and humans have been forced to hide, even from one another.

The infected roam the cities and suburbs of a ruined nation. But the devastating effects on human physiology are only the beginning. Something has been let loose, something that the team were not prepared for - human nature itself.

Matt and Carla must make it back to the CDC headquarters, crossing the apocalyptic countryside that proves every bit as dangerous and deadly as the South American jungle. The race is on to test their eradication cure, before their world suffers the same fate as that of the giant saurians of prehistory.

But there is something they don't count on - the solution has a high price. If they don't use the cure it means the end of mankind, but what if the remedy is worse than the disease?

©2013 Greig Beck (P)2013 Bolinda Publishing

Get the real stuff real!!

Any additional comments?

Really? .99 caliber rifles, guided RPG's and Corporals flying helicopters.
The fantasy is more believable if the factual is not flawed!!

Continuity?

I've read most of Greig Beck's books now - they're always entertaining - but since he's working on a series with characters such as Matt Kerns that carry over from book to book...it's a bit sloppy to end one book with a massive event that forever changes the face of the planet and begin the next involving the same characters with no mention of the previous book beyond a brief comment about a break up.

Mr. Beck please fact check first it kills the mood

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I guess yes but only because I had time invested into reading the first two episodes so I had to see how it ended.

What could Greig Beck have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Ok look I love Greig Beck's work I actually enjoy everything he puts out but in this book a fairly large scene takes place in a small town called Tullahoma in Tennessee which I'm very familiar with and it has just under 19,000 population. However Mr. Beck describes the place as a population of 500,000 and actually says its not a backwaters place when in fact that is exactly what it is. I had trouble getting past that plus he refers to one rifle as .99 caliber which is ridiculous there has never been such a thing, there is however a sniper rifle made by Barrett that is a monster .50 caliber and called the model 99 which I think possibly got mixed up in Mr. Becks or editors research. That sort of stuff really puts me off because now I have to wonder if everything else I'm reading needs fact checked. There is science fiction where authors can get away with well just about anything I get that but then there is real life things that need to be told accurately

What about Sean Mangan’s performance did you like?

Sean Mangan is again a great narrator, I hope he continues narration in all of Greig Beck books.

Short should have been part of episode 2.

An abrupt ending to a very complex story was disappointing. This type of ending could have taken place at any point in episode 2. It seems like the author just got tired, had enough, broke his pencil in two and went home.

great.

Love the lost world/end of world stuff. onto book 1. the first three pre books were good. Have to get over crazy discussions made by scientists but still great.