Extinction Red Line

The Extinction Cycle

By: Tom Abrahams, Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

The official prequel and origin story of the best-selling Extinction Cycle series!

One marine’s end is the beginning of our extinction....

For a dozen years, villagers along the ancient Da River in Vietnam have feared a nightmarish creature who hunts and consumes human flesh. Only in whispers do they mention its name, The White Ghost.

To the United States military, this creature has a different name - Marine Lieutenant Trevor Brett, the chemically engineered experiment gone wrong that they will do anything to hide. Sole survivor of his platoon, Brett has stalked the jungle for prey for over a decade. But the men who made him into a monster are searching for him, and when they find him, the line between hunter and hunted will be blurred.

©2018 Nicholas Sansbury Smith and Tom Abrahams (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Back to the beginning!

This is an incredible beginning story of the Extinction series. I love that we get to know more about certain characters (No spoilers!) This is an expanded edition of the previous "kindle world" book and the co-authoring between Nicholas Sansbury Smith and Tom Abrahams is phenomenal. Bronson Pinchot is one of my favorite narrators also. I mean this combination is just perfect! If you've read (or listened) to any of the other extinction cycle books you MUST get this one too. Even if you haven't, this is the perfect entrance into the whole series.

A story where you end up rooting for the monster

- Josh here

This is a book that is something I felt was long overdue to help set the stage for how VX-99 and the variants came to be. Nick and Tom did a fantastic job of presenting the backstory for one of my favorite book series. By the end of the story, I found myself rooting for Lieutenant Brett. It was very interesting to get inside the head of the monster and understand what was going on in there, what was driving him, and to see the remnants of humanity that lingered after his injection. I also found myself drawn to Lynn and Dew and the way their relationship formed throughout the story.

The only thing I would have added to the story is a transition to the modern time, just before the Team Ghost insertion mission, to showcase the events leading up to that operation. Perhaps a book .75 is coming? If so, I will be first in line to buy it. The teamwork between Nick and Tom resulted in a wonderful precursor to the EC series and I hope the two of them team up to bring us more.

Now I need to re-listen to the series again because I have an itch that must be re-scratched.

beginning of the end...

a must for all who follow NSS's Extinction Cycle...from the Soldier that was lied to as he and his team injected themselves with what they believed would be their salvation in a war that this country demonized, to the two mad men and their who yo see this disastrous plan through the end. ...Great to read, better to listen to for the full impact of the first VX99 soldier that survived a 12 year nightmare.

Awesome prequel!

Extinction Cycle is a fantastic series and had this back story coming. This is a great stand alone story, but why not move on to the rest of the series. It is worth your time.

Great start!

I took advantage of the new Audible membership and got this book for free. It is a prologue to a larger series, so I started at the beginning. Very interesting with lots of action and a great narrator.

Excellent Prequel

This book is an excellent extension of the Extinction series. The origin-story is nicely detailed and well read by Bronson Pinchot. Highly recommended.

unbelievable!!!

couldn't put it down! I think it's the best book in the series! outstanding narrator! I agree with a previous comment you feel sorry for the monster! really I can't express how good this book was!

Good Book

Narrator was good and the story was not what I expected. Really good book. Would recommend it

Déjà vu???

Loved the story, here and there kinda reminds me of Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger as he and his team are hunted in the jungle

I came because of the Survival Series!

So... This whole world created by Sansbury is crazy! I'm really loving this idea of super soldiers meeting biological apocalypse! Thank you! I'm getting ready to start the 1st boxset!