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Characters of Note
Military Personnel
Bunker One
Col Kimberly Blake, CO
Cpt Marcus Potter, Operations Chief
Expeditionary Force One (Bunker One)
Lt. Col Dalton Gaines, CO
Maj Tom Reynolds, XO
Cpt Adrian Masters
Hunter Squad Alpha (Bunker One)
Lt Luis Marquz, CO
Cpl Eden Blake
Sgt Lorenzo, Giuliani
Bunker Three
Col Terrance James, CO
Maj Brian Mancuso, Hunter, CO
Bunker Seven
Col William Shaw, CO
Lt Rachel Maxwell, Hunter
Bunker Eight
Gen Frank Anderson, AEGIS CO
Cpt Donald Anderson, XO
Sgt Andrew Carson
Lt Alonso MacPherson
New Atlantic Fleet
Adm Jeremiah Graves, CO
Cmdr Jackson O'Reilly, XO
Non-Military Personnel
Bunker One/Washington
David Blake
Marcie Gaines, Military Liaison
Angela Gates, Governor
Bunker Two/Idaho
Walter Belkins, Governor
Bunker Four/Iowa
Malcolm Dagger, Governor/CO
Logan Black, Assistant
Bunker Five/Pennsylvania
Marjorie and Darnell Lane, Special Advisors
Frederick W. Marnes, President
Ennis Norman
Bunker Seven/New Mexico
Dr. Jim Atkins, Geneticist
Dr. Mary Maxwell, AEGIS Head of Research
Tom Ridgely, Governor
Jennifer Shaw, Head of Security
Bunker Eight/Texas
Roger Tate, Governor
Other Locations
Brother Ezekiel, Church Leader
Harper Grey
Archbishop Sebastian Wright
Acronyms
AEGIS
Advanced Experimental Genetics Intelligence Service
ACU
Army Combat Uniform
CDC
Centers for Disease Control (and Prevention)
CO
Commanding Officer of a unit or group
MTV
Medium Tactical Vehicle
NVD
Night Vision Device
REAPR
Real-time Enemy Assessors and Physiology Readers
XO
Executive Officer: second-in-command of a unit or group
Z-Day
The day the world at large was informed of the existence of walkers, through a speech by the US president
Interesting Links
Prions (UC Davis BioWiki)
Facilitate Prion Research Using C. elegans
Production of Cattle Lacking Prion Protein [Abstract]
Eating Human Brains Drove Evolution In Remote Tribe
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kristopher, Jason
The dying of the light: beginning / Jason Kristopher
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015942796
ISBN 978-1-9388214-8-6
Kindle Edition
v1.1
Table of Contents
Prologue
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
EPILOGUE
Support Indie Authors and Small Press
Afterword
About the Author
More from Jason Kristopher
Recommended Reading
Grey Gecko Press
Characters of Note
Acronyms
Interesting Links
Table of Contents
Prologue
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
> CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
EPILOGUE
Support Indie Authors and Small Press
Afterword
About the Author
More from Jason Kristopher
Recommended Reading
Grey Gecko Press
Characters of Note
Acronyms
Interesting Links
The Dying of the Light (Book 3): Beginning Page 51