• The Last Centurion

  • By: John Ringo
  • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
  • Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (1,130 ratings)

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The Last Centurion

By: John Ringo
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
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Publisher's summary

In the second decade of the 21st century, the world is struck by two catastrophes: a new mini-ice age and a plague to dwarf all previous experiences. Rising out of the disaster is the character known to history as "Bandit Six", an American Army officer caught up in the struggle to rebuild the world and prevent the fall of his homeland - despite the best efforts of politicians, both elected and military.

The Last Centurion is a memoir of one possible future, a world that is a darkling mirror of our own. Written "blog-style", it pulls no punches in its descriptions of junk science, bad strategy, and organic farming.

©2008 John Ringo (P)2008 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Dan John Miller’s delivery is perfect for this no-punches-pulled first-person narrative by Bandit Six, the Last Centurion. Laced with crude language and dark images of the future, Miller’s reading is straightforward and army tough." (AudioFile Magazine)

"Ringo excels in the depiction of combat, managing to capture the carnage and horror while maintaining a sense of the absurd....with the unexpected twists that Ringo has made his hallmark." (Publishers Weekly)

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Ringo, Always Good

I saw the mixed reviews so I put it off for a long time. When I finally listened to it I was well pleased.

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Absolute PANDEMIC read!

I swear to god John Ringo is a time traveler, the man wrote a book in 2008 that is about a flu outbreak from China that starts in 2019 and is not taken seriously because, hey it's only the flu.

This book is so good.

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VERY GOOD

don't get me wrong this is definitely a political thriller there is action there is aggression but this isn't a drama book this is not an action and adventure book this is a political thriller and but it's a really good one when does the next one come out??

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Excellent as always!

A good hard look at an all too plausible situation and how the "Progressive" mindset/worldview is likely to fail us.

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Why the weird rating?? Here’s why

So the book is incredibly interesting take them the end of the modern age or the possible end of US dominance or something like that. Or at least it could be when you look at it with the lens of 2008. Now sitting at 2020 it’s so a lot of propaganda for global warming deniers/right wing sentiments anti-Democrat verbal vomits. If you can read it read it for entertainment it is going to be interesting if you are right wing and also interesting if you are left-wing or even if you live in one of the two directions don’t make it about politics have fun with it it’s a disaster flick. And that Mr. Ringo is probably mentally walking himself back from all the stuff that was written in this book about what would happen if there was a pandemic in 2019. Now with our ability to see what happened this last month of 2020 holy crap was it wrong. But hey if you like guns and people planning how to get out of a really crappy situation listen to it know that most of the propaganda is propaganda and it is bullshit. And enjoy it if you can if you can look at it as fantasy

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How did you know

As for the narrator I believe that he did an excellent job of the narration and making it easier to see in my mind. Kudos to you and keep it up.
Mr Ringo, I want to tell you that as a fellow veteran that your story hits very close to home. But my biggest question is, how were you able to write this story about a pandemic, albeit a different virus, that almost mirrors what is going on right now 12 years later? The book should be read by all the political leaders of the world. Your insight could provide a framework to avoid the pitfalls we all now face.
Bless you for your skill and thank you.

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right up my alley but still fairly heavy-handed

a good message about the realities of the world especially when it comes to the economics of farming. still fairly heavy-handed and repetitive even though I resonated with the message.

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greats

love the dook so great!!!! have listened to this over and over. and over the last couple of years parts make me look and go so true.

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Somewhat prophetic....

I absolutely loved listening to The Last Centurion. Considering how things are going literally today, John Ringo was somewhat prophetic as to circumstances. I'm just glad the prophesy didn't fully pan out. I feel this book would be a great example of what we would be dealing with if the situation today were only slightly different. I still think he called it though.

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Honored Classic Literature which should be Spread

John is a favorite of mine for years due to his quirky mindset and ability to deconstruct a situation and expose it's warts and propaganda. He correctly IMHO evaluates the mindless and societally murderous and destructive propaganda of the Progressive left's ideology going back centuries. Please note the (leftist labelled right wing radicals of history, Hitler, and Mussolini, as well as classic Stalin and Mao) were ALL leftist. NAZI is German for National SOCIALIST Party and the Fascism of Mussolini was Socialist as well with central control and planning. This book is a profound and serious treatise on the evils of socialism and RADICAL Islam while not treading on the toes of other alternative governments or moderate Muslims. It should be required reading (or listening) in Public Schools, Colleges and Universities world wide or at least in supposed Federal Republics such as what we were purported to be. This book will be in my extensive library at the top of the reading and re-reading list from now on. Thanks John and Thanks Dan John Miller for the outstanding reading of the novel. Wm Ediger, MD, LtCol, USAF MC (Ret.)

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