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THEY DIDN’T NEED TO WIN A WAR OF BULLETS. THEY JUST NEEDED TO TURN OFF OUR LIGHTS.
On a Tuesday evening, every circuit from the Pacific to the Atlantic dies at once. No warning. No coming back. Fire Captain Jacob Rome is twenty-five miles from home. He walks. Past stalled cars, past the first fires, past the first bodies. This is the shape of a country realizing, in real time, that no one is coming.
His wife Olivia is already moving. A NICU nurse, two kids, a cold house, a propane tank that won't last the winter. She doesn't panic. She prepares.
What they build is called The Pocket. A stretch of Oregon foothill. A handful of frightened neighbors turned garrison. Office workers and schoolteachers learning to butcher, to dig, to stand watch with a rifle across their knees.
But The Pocket can't hold forever. Winter is close. A splinter becomes sepsis. A neighbor becomes a threat. And somewhere beyond the dark, the people who threw the switch are planning their next move.
The EMP wasn't the end of America. It was the opening move.
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About the Author
C.J. Lenz is an American fiction author best known for The Western Eclipse Series, a grounded, highly realistic exploration of post-apocalyptic survival, community defense, and human resilience after an electromagnetic pulse (EMP).A Fire Captain and Paramedic in the Pacific Northwest, Lenz brings years of real-world emergency response, crisis management, and tactical leadership directly to the page. Frustrated by post-apocalyptic fiction dominated by superhero tropes, bulletproof protagonists, and unrealistic military gear, he began writing to deliver authentic, hyper-grounded stories where real logistics, resource scarcity, and human psychology drive the narrative.When he isn't on shift or working on his next manuscript, Lenz lives on ten acres in Western Oregon with his wife, a Registered Nurse, and their two children. Together, they manage a homestead complete with gardens, feather-footed poultry, and honeybees. An avid camper and traveler, both locally throughout the Pacific Northwest and internationally, his firsthand experience with self-reliance, land management, and emergency medicine forms the backbone of his fictional world.Published under CAMC Publishing, C.J. Lenz's novels emphasize true-to-life mechanics, agrarian cooperation, and the stark realities of standing your ground when modern infrastructure disappears.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. THEY DIDN'T NEED TO WIN A WAR OF BULLETS. THEY JUST NEEDED TO TURN OFF OUR LIGHTS.When a coordinated electromagnetic pulse kills the American power grid on an October evening, fire captain and paramedic Jacob Rome is on shift and thirty miles from home. No warning. No explanation. Just silence where the hum of civilization used to be. His wife Olivia, an ER nurse, is already counting water jugs before he makes it back to Fall Creek.Within hours, the rules change. Within days, the food stops moving. Within weeks, the people who couldn't adapt start arriving at the fences of those who could.What saves them isn't one family. It's a neighborhood. The Romes and the families around them on ten acres of timber and creek-fed land in Oregon's Cascade foothills do the only thing that makes sense: they hold what they have and build what they need. A well. A garden. A gate. A perimeter. Nathan plants the rows. Jeff keeps the engines turning. Caleb finds a signal in the static. Karen builds a network no one can jam. Olivia runs triage in a barn with a scalpel and a memory. They become the Pocket, a name earned through a winter of rationing, armed standoffs, and the math of calories against mouths.But survival draws attention. Every defended wall advertises what's behind it, and the Pocket becomes visible to people who have stopped asking and started taking.As spring replaces the starvation gap and the garden produces faster than they can preserve, the neighborhood faces a harder question than how to stay alive. Reports filter in from the coast: ships on the horizon. Foreign ships. A coalition of displaced nations with nowhere left to go has crossed the Pacific, and what's coming ashore in Oregon isn't a raiding party. It's a migration. Armed, organized, and enormous.The Pocket was built to survive a crisis. Now it has to survive what comes after.The EMP wasn't the end of America. It was the opening move.The Pocket is the first book in the Western Eclipse series, a post-EMP survival thriller set in rural Oregon, where the distance between neighbors is measured in trust and the cost of holding a line is counted in the people you become. A neighborhood in rural Oregon bands together to survive after an EMP kills the grid. But staying alive draws attention, and what's coming from across the Pacific is bigger than anything they built the walls for. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798952364028
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. THEY DIDN'T NEED TO WIN A WAR OF BULLETS. THEY JUST NEEDED TO TURN OFF OUR LIGHTS.When a coordinated electromagnetic pulse kills the American power grid on an October evening, fire captain and paramedic Jacob Rome is on shift and thirty miles from home. No warning. No explanation. Just silence where the hum of civilization used to be. His wife Olivia, an ER nurse, is already counting water jugs before he makes it back to Fall Creek.Within hours, the rules change. Within days, the food stops moving. Within weeks, the people who couldn't adapt start arriving at the fences of those who could.What saves them isn't one family. It's a neighborhood. The Romes and the families around them on ten acres of timber and creek-fed land in Oregon's Cascade foothills do the only thing that makes sense: they hold what they have and build what they need. A well. A garden. A gate. A perimeter. Nathan plants the rows. Jeff keeps the engines turning. Caleb finds a signal in the static. Karen builds a network no one can jam. Olivia runs triage in a barn with a scalpel and a memory. They become the Pocket, a name earned through a winter of rationing, armed standoffs, and the math of calories against mouths.But survival draws attention. Every defended wall advertises what's behind it, and the Pocket becomes visible to people who have stopped asking and started taking.As spring replaces the starvation gap and the garden produces faster than they can preserve, the neighborhood faces a harder question than how to stay alive. Reports filter in from the coast: ships on the horizon. Foreign ships. A coalition of displaced nations with nowhere left to go has crossed the Pacific, and what's coming ashore in Oregon isn't a raiding party. It's a migration. Armed, organized, and enormous.The Pocket was built to survive a crisis. Now it has to survive what comes after.The EMP wasn't the end of America. It was the opening move.The Pocket is the first book in the Western Eclipse series, a post-EMP survival thriller set in rural Oregon, where the distance between neighbors is measured in trust and the cost of holding a line is counted in the people you become. A neighborhood in rural Oregon bands together to survive after an EMP kills the grid. But staying alive draws attention, and what's coming from across the Pacific is bigger than anything they built the walls for. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798952364028
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