"The Remaining: Allegiance (The Remaining, 5)" by D. J. Molles
https://www.amazon.com/Remaining-Allegiance-D-J-Molles/dp/0316404268/

Book number five of a six book apocalyptic science fiction series.
There is another series in the same universe with the main character. I
read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Orbit in 2015
that I purchased new in 2025 from Amazon. I have the sixth book in the series.

Captain Lee Harden of the US Army is a member of the US Special Forces.
His duty is to live in his remote US Army built home with a steel and
lead concrete bunker underneath it. Any time the US government gets
nervous, he goes down into his bunker with his dog and locks the vault
door. He then talks with his supervisor daily over the internet until released by his supervisor to leave the bunker. His duty is to stay in
the bunker during any event and come out thirty days after he has zero
contact with his supervisor. Then it is his duty to find groups of
people to restore order in his portion of the USA.

Then one day, Captain Harden has been sitting in his bunker for a couple
of weeks and his supervisor does not call. A plague has been sweeping
the planet and things are getting more dire by the day. Apparently the infected do not die but their brains are mostly wiped out. Zombies. A
month later, Captain Harden and his dog emerge from their bunker to find
a total disaster with infected roaming the countryside.

Captain Harden’s home and bunker were burned out after everything to eat
or shoot was stolen by a gang of bad guys. But he has a secret, he has
ten bunkers built by the U.S. Army strategically located around the
state. And only he can open the bunkers. But the bad guys are chasing Captain Harden to get the rest of the food and ammo from him. And
nobody trusts anybody.

Captain Harden and his many allies have set out to blow the bridges
between North Carolina and South Carolina to keep the infected hordes
from the north from advancing into South Carolina. But, the hirdes are
moving south quickly and blowing the bridges takes a day for each
bridge. And a traitor tried to assassinate Captain Harden and did steal
his GPS code key to the arms and food caches. And his allies are
running into The Followers who are taking out survivors in South
Carolina. Camp Rider Hub has been freed from the people who do not
agree with Captain Harden about taking out the infected. And the
Marines from Camp Legume has shown up but they are confused about the
coming hordes of infected.

The author has a website at:
https://djmolles.com/blog/the-remaining-universe-reading-order

My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (3,283 reviews)

Lynn


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