Within 72 Hours Book Two: Scorched Earth

De: Justin Conn

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The United States is losing control.

After a violent outbreak begins spreading through the eastern United States, cities fall into chaos and millions of civilians flee west as the infection spreads faster than the government can contain it. Military units are pushed into desperate defensive battles while evacuation convoys clog every highway leading away from the collapsing coast.

As the situation spirals out of control, the U.S. government launches Continental Shield, a massive military operation to establish a defensive line along the Mississippi River. The goal is simple but brutal: hold the river long enough to save what remains of the country.

On the front lines, Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Trent and the surviving Marines of the early containment battles struggle to keep evacuation corridors open while infected hordes close in behind millions of refugees. Every bridge, highway, and checkpoint becomes a critical battleground between survival and total collapse.

Meanwhile, a classified mission called Operation Rainfall is launched into the heart of Manhattan to recover vital biological samples that may hold the only hope of understanding the outbreak.

But time is running out.

As the East Coast becomes uncontrollable and the infected spread across state lines, the United States prepares for a final and unthinkable contingency—destroying entire regions to stop the infection from reaching the rest of the country.

Scorched Earth is the second book in the Within 72 Hours series, a large-scale military survival thriller that follows soldiers, scientists, and leaders fighting to save a nation as civilization collapses around them.