Outrider

A Novel

By: Steven John

Narrated by: Matthew McCollum

Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

Within a few decades, solar technology will evolve to the point where power is endless - unless someone wants to stop the flow - which someone does.And the only men who can stop these high-tech terrorists are on horseback. In the near future, the New Las Vegas Sunfield will be one of many enormous solar farms to supply energy to the United States. At more than fifty miles long and two miles wide, the Sunfield generates an electromagnetic field so volatile that ordinary machinery and even the simplest electronic devices must be kept miles away from it. Thus, the only men who can guard the most technologically advanced power station on earth do so on horseback.They are the Outriders.Though the power supplied by the Sunfield is widespread, access to that power comes with total deference to the iron-fisted will of New Las Vegas’s ruthless mayor, Franklin Dreg. Crisis erupts when Dreg’s quietly competent secretary, Timothy Hale, discovers someone has been stealing energysiphoning it out of the New Las Vegas grid under cover of darkness.As the Outriders investigate, the scale of the thievery becomes clear: these aren’t the ordinary energy leeches, people who steal a few watts here or there. These are high-tech terrorists (or revolutionaries) engaged in a mysterious and dangerous enterprise and poised to bring down the entire energy grid, along with the millions of people it supports.The pressure mounts and fractures appear within both the political leadership of New Las Vegas and in the tight-knit community of Outriders. With a potential crisis looming, the mysterious goal of the Drainers” finally comes into focus. Only then do the Outriders realize how dangerous the situation really is.

©2014 Steven John (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Good Book

I really enjoyed this book but felt like it could have been made longer into a series with better results. The characters were well written and the storyline was ok but in many ways felt stunted and underdeveloped. It was not always clear why people were doing what they were doing. It felt at times that the person writing for the characters and their emotions was not the same person who was doing the plot for the story.

Cowboys and Horses??

If you write a book about cowboys and horses, best you do some research into horses so you don’t look silly.
All in all, not a great book but it was free.

interesting.....

Well written, easy to follow, clear plot. Good easy read. N[t alot of depth [r development, bur a good background noise, kinda listen.

Slow and strange startup but...

it is a very different type of story. Slow to start, confusing then it all starts to come together into a great story.
Better editing needed.
Loved the narrator Matthew.
Oh why so many horses must die? One is too many.
Now there must be a part 2 as I really want to follow Maria, Tim, and our hero, Sco....

Roll on author.

definitely different

it is a captivating story and well read. I will keep an ear open for more stories from this pair

new thought on the apocalyptic world

good story line, but a little slow on the start.... then got exciting 3/4 thru

Cowboys

I loved this story, the cowboys , horses, steam engines, a stupid mayor, tears, laughter, love, whiskey!!!!! Who could ask for more!!

Overall this listen was OK

I believe the narrator did a good job and had a pleasing voice to listen to. The story on the other hand I feel left a lot to be desired. I gave it 3 stars because I listened to the whole story hoping it would improve. I kept waiting for some excitement but my mind kept drifting off.

weird

It's like it didn't know if it wanted to be cyberpunk steampunk or Western really strange

don't know why but it reminded me of Atlas shrugge

honestly I thought it was a great book. and for some reason I felt like it was Ayn rand's version of a western!