B.T. Wright - Uncivil War: Evolution

THE UNCIVIL WAR SERIES

UNCIVIL WAR

UNCIVIL WAR: INFECTED

UNCIVIL WAR: EVOLUTION

UNCIVIL WAR: TAKEOVER

(available - 8/27/19)

UNCIVIL WAR: RECKONING

(September 2019)

UNCIVIL WAR: AWAKENING

(October 2019)

There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

Buzz Aldrin

Uncivil War is an episodic six novel series where youll follow two brothers into the apocalypse. What makes our story unique is that I, B.T. Wright, will be writing Jake Maddoxs story, and Jonathan Dudycha will be writing Colt Maddoxs story.

The advantage this gives us as co-authors is that each brother will truly have his own unique voice, because the authors have theirs. We believe the stories of the different brothers are much more authentic because of the way we have split the storytelling duties.

As the reader, you get to see the apocalypse from two different perspectives along the same timeline. Jake lives in Kentucky and Colt lives in Colorado. They both confront their own obstacles along the way while trying to fight their way back to each other. Each novel in the series is from one brother's perspective, battling through a world that all of a sudden is nothing like it used to be.

We hope you enjoy the ride. It has certainly been fun for us to write.

Book 3

by

B.T. Wright

The hum of the boats motor was loud in their ears. The river was black in the dark of midnight, and the wind pushing against Jake Maddoxs face felt warm. Though his girlfriend, Jess, his best friend Tyler, and their VIP packagethirteen-year-old Amymade it without injury, his heart was heavy. The short but hellacious run from the University of Cincinnati to the Rivertown Marina had already claimed the first member of their team. Jerry may have been their weakest link, but he was still part of the chain all the same. A mission is always a failure when a team member is lost. No matter if the desired outcome is reached or not.

The infected had been everywhere on their trip to get to the boat, or at least that was how it seemed. Just four days ago, before they were infected, every one of those black-eyed aliens had been a normal human being just like Jake and everyone else on his team. Now they were all hunters. Looking to take everyone in their path down with them. For what reason, or to what end, was still unknown. But what was certainly clear was that they were getting smarter and more cunning by the day.

Moving from the safety of the small compound under the library at the university at night had been the only thing that saved them. That and they were able to drive to Rivertown Marina with their lights off thanks to the night vision goggles Professor Reed had procured before the fall of earth. Jerry lost his life because a group of infected had been standing guard at the marina, waiting for anyone to come their way. They had waited until everyone was well clear of the RV to make their move. And they came fast. In the end, they had killed every one of the dozen infected that had jumped them, but not before they claimed one of Jakes ten.

Jake had gone over the risks with everyone who decided to leave the university for the emergency operations center in Mount Weather, Virginia. They knew the risks, but that didnt make the loss any easier. However, just like any of his many missions with Delta Forces and in the Army, Jake knew the objective must still be reached. They had to keep their minds moving forward, and that was what he was doing now as he stood at the bow of the boat, staring at the black in front of him.

The boat was stocked with enough weapons and ammunition for a small war. If the trek from the university to the marina was any indication of what was to come, that amount of weaponry still wouldnt be enough. They had plenty of medicine. Yesterday morning Jake led Bryan Hall, the only other survivor with military experience, and two other men that were also on the boat now, out on a Beritrix run. Beritrix is the medicine Jake has been taking since he was an infant when he was diagnosed with WD17, a disease that completely strips the immune system, affecting approximately 1% of the worlds population. But more important for Jake and others that had this disease, it also just so happened to be the medicine that kept them from getting infected. The medicine had been created to restore and amplify the immune system in those who had WD17. Apparently, it restored the immune system in a way that whatever the aliens were releasing into the air to infect people, Beritrix kept those aliens from making hosts out of whoever had been injecting it. A dose of Beritrix a day helps keep the aliens away, Tyler had joked. So far, it had continued to be true. And everyone on the mission to Mount Weather would have to have that daily dose to keep from being turned.

What the rest of the population had been turned into was still a point of contention, but with Amy being able to translate the alien conversation, and that conversation being all about taking over humanity, it was hard to argue, even for Jake, that it was anything other than an invasion. What they wanted, and why they wanted it, was still a mystery. And it would remain so, at least until Jake and company got Amy to Mount Weather, where they could begin investigating and running tests as to why she was immune from being infected even though she hadnt taken Beritrix. The real reason to get her to Mount Weather, other than Jakes carnal instinct to protect the innocent, was that the thirteen-year-old could actually understand these invaders. Whatever they were. Jake and Jess also believed Amy was what the aliens had referred to as Element Zero. In the conversation Amy was able to translate, these aliens mentioned Element Zero was their only weakness, and that they must find it. They both thought it too big of a coincidence that Amy was immune without medicine and could translate this alien language. Then, of course, there was also the fact that on multiple occasions, the infected, who had never spoken anything before, said the name Amy. One said it to Jake, and one said it to Dr. Emily Fraser at Mount Weather. The coincidence was too strong.