Slow Fall

A Green Beret Preparation and Survival Novel

By: Bob Mayer

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The lights don’t go out all at once. They flicker.

When civilization collapses it will be slow and brutal.

Five groups in Knoxville, Tennessee must recognize the signs, survive the journey to a possible new beginning, and forge an alliance. From bestselling author and former Green Beret Bob Mayer and survival instructor—a survival thriller grounded in real tactics, real terrain, and the hardest question: who do you save when you can’t save everyone?

Dave is a retired Green Beret who has spent years studying the terrain around Knoxville, Tennessee—mapping every bridge, every supply route, every vulnerability. His wife Elena has spent those same years tolerating his obsession. When 911 stops answering and three people draw concealed weapons in a hardware store parking lot, Jack knows the flickering is about to stop.

Sarah runs the greenhouses at the University of Tennessee. When the campus goes dark and the deliveries stop coming, she grabs her seeds and the veterinary student who’s the closest thing to a doctor she can find, and heads for the mountains.

Lily is seventeen. When desperate families overrun her subdivision, her parents freeze. Lily doesn’t. Something switches on inside her—a hyperawareness she can’t turn off—and she walks out of the suburbs and into a world where the person who sees everything might be the most valuable person alive.

Cole reads people the way other men read books. From downtown Knoxville, he watches the supply chains collapse and sees what others miss: not a disaster, but a market. He loads a truck and heads south, carrying leverage.

And Pop—Lily’s grandfather—sees what’s coming and says nothing. His silence will cost more than anyone knows.

• • •

Five groups. Five timelines. A collapse that nobody can explain and nobody can stop. Rumors of a virus make every stranger a threat. Or was it AI and/or a computer virus? Or was it just a lot of things coming together? No one knows for sure. Nashville goes dark. The internet dies in pieces. The news spreads falsehoods until it disappears.

But the greatest danger isn’t the collapse. It’s other people. And one of them has already been turned away.

• • •

Slow Fall is the first book in the Green Beret Survival Series from bestselling author and former Green Beret Bob Mayer. Grounded in real survival principles from Mayer’s international bestseller The Green Beret Preparation and Survival Guide and set in meticulously researched East Tennessee terrain, it combines the tactical authenticity of a military thriller with the character depth of literary fiction. Every chapter dramatizes a real survival lesson. Every decision has a cost. And in a world where civilization didn’t end with a bang but with a slow, vicious fall—the people who prepared have a leg up but they need more.

The next book in the series will be DEEP WINTER

Virtual Voice, Yuck!

Good story, likable characters, the places are real which is great. The virtual voice, terrible! Need Kevin Pierce, not robo…

Never AI narration again

The voice selected for this book, is hard to understand, also no inflections puts you asleep. The writing may have been good, but the narration killed the book.
No more AI for me.