What is Arisen Fortress Britain About?
When the Zombie Apocalypse came, one country had shut down its borders in response to a major terrorist attack. Now Fortress Britain is the last bastion of the living – with 50 million beleaguered survivors facing down a world of 7 billion animated corpses.
And when civilization fell, one international team of supremely elite special operators was being assembled for a nearly impossible mission, deployed out of the SAS barracks at Hereford. Supremely trained and armed, always the most skilled, resolved, and unstoppable amongst us, now the commandos of Alpha team are humanity’s last best hope for survival. Searching through the detritus of fallen Europe, scavenging pharmaceutical labs for clues to a vaccine that might bring humanity back from the brink, now they are tasked with one last desperate operation.
They must cross the Atlantic aboard the world’s only remaining supercarrier, insert by air into the very middle of a dead continent, and then fight their way on foot through a city of 3 million ravening dead guys. But these Zulus will not be like any zombies they have ever fought before…
Our Arisen: Fortress Britain Review
Fortress Britain takes a more military, action oriented slant within the zombie genre. It opens with an action scene that introduces the reader to a joint special operations team that has been operating since the outbreak. The outbreak itself was months in the past and this team have been working on extracting data from various pharmaceutical research sites that were working on a possible vaccine or cure.
From my previous reviews, most of you know that I look into technical aspect of any novel that contains military operations. Fortress Britain, with its primary focus on Alpha Team, the joint special operations unit, is pretty much spot on. There were no problems with operational tactics, methodology or weapons usage. The novel, while centered around this team, also lays out what has happened in the months since infection. There is a subplot where the Chunnel has been closed and then one of the new ‘foxtrot novembers’ breaks through the rubble and gets into town, that is quite interesting as to the outcome of the little event. What is a little odd is that when the military engineers reopen the tunnel entrance on the UK side, they discover survivors within the tunnel that have been there for at least a year. What I want to know is how did they remain alive if one of the ‘FN’s was able to sweep the town once it got out and make more of infected? Maybe that will be revealed in a later book.
Fortress Britain, a literary cooperation between two authors, really hits home the desolation of an apocalyptic event. The soldiers still remain ‘kitted up’ to use a term from that region of the world but they are also acutely aware that the ammunition is in limited supply as is the batteries for all their high speed toys like night vision goggles, Blue Force Trackers and other devices that a modern military uses.
When book 1 ends, it leaves the reader with some startling revelations. Europe is pretty much ceded to the infected, Foxtrot Novembers are a new form of the infected, and there’s a carrier group still in operation after all this time. Oh, and there might be a cure somewhere in Chicago, a city full of millions of infected.
If you like your zombie novels with real world military hardware and action pick up Fortress Britain. You won’t be disappointed.
Where to buy Arisen Fortress Britain
Available at Amazon.
