Dead Line
An Apocalypse LitRPG (Gridfall Book 1)By Dane Ashworth
Length6h 12m
About this audiobook
The grid died at 6:14 on a Friday. Something else switched on. Cole Merritt was ninety feet up a pole when every light in the world went out, engines, batteries, phones, all of it, and blue text hung itself in the air like a past-due notice. The Ledger had arrived: a System that runs on tariffs instead of mercy, where light is the only safe territory, kills pay Current, and every square yard of survival is a utility bill. The System gave the fighters flashy combat classes. It read Cole's employment file and gave him LINEMAN, the trash utility class nobody wants. Except the dark is full of things on a schedule. The county's survivors are huddled under candles with 72 hours on the clock. His daughter is forty miles and nine dead substations away. And it turns out there is exactly one class that can string light from town to town, pole by pole, splice by splice, through everything the dark can field. The monsters have a foreman. The foreman files paperwork. And the deeper Cole strings his Line into the dark, the more the dark's flawless, lonely, regulation workmanship starts to look like something impossible: family. Dead Line is Book One of Gridfall: a complete story with a real ending, blue-collar competence, brutal System economics, found-family crew loyalty, and a hard-earned finale that pays off every thread. For readers who think the best superpower is a man who knows what he is doing.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy
Length6 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
28Interlude — The Warden's Watch
2Chapter One — Test Before Touch
29Chapter Twenty — Fault
3Chapter Two — Right-of-Way
30Interlude — Milton's Table
4Chapter Three — Load
31Chapter Twenty-One — The Trunk Line
5Interlude — Grace Period
32Chapter Twenty-Two — Consolidation
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6Chapter Four — The Substation
33Interlude — The Spread
7Chapter Five — Terms of Service
34PART THREE — PAST DUE
8Chapter Six — One Street
35Chapter Twenty-Three — Customer of Record
9Interlude — One Street
36Chapter Twenty-Four — The Dim Seats
10Chapter Seven — Splice
37Interlude — Maya's Atlas
11Chapter Eight — The Meter Reader
38Chapter Twenty-Five — Rate Case
12Chapter Nine — Warm Bodies
39Interlude — Qualified
13Interlude — Carol's Ledger
40Chapter Twenty-Six — Load Shed
14Chapter Ten — 72:00:00
41Chapter Twenty-Seven — A. Merritt
15PART TWO — THE CORRIDOR
42Chapter Twenty-Eight — The Authority Falls
16Chapter Eleven — Right-of-Way (Company)
43Chapter Twenty-Nine — Surge
17Chapter Twelve — Node HB-2
44Interlude — In-Processing
18Interlude — Black Valentine
45Chapter Thirty — Span 47
19Chapter Thirteen — Rates
46Chapter Thirty-One — Test Before Touch
20Chapter Fourteen — The Foreman's Mark
47Interlude — The Yard
21Interlude — Meter Reading
48Chapter Thirty-Two — Restoration
22Chapter Fifteen — Live Splice
49Chapter Thirty-Three — The Bill
23Chapter Sixteen — Halfway House
50Interlude — The Apprentice Book
24Chapter Seventeen — Maya's Voice
51Chapter Thirty-Four — Dead Line
25Interlude — The Good Seats
52— END OF BOOK ONE —
26Chapter Eighteen — Load Test
53Thank you for reading
27Chapter Nineteen — The Old Crew
54Also by Dane Ashworth
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