Dead Line
An Apocalypse LitRPG (Gridfall Book 1)By Dane Ashworth
Length6h 13m
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 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1DEAD LINE
2Chapter One — Test Before Touch
3Chapter Two — Right-of-Way
4Chapter Three — Load
5Interlude — Grace Period
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6Chapter Four — The Substation
7Chapter Five — Terms of Service
8Chapter Six — One Street
9Interlude — One Street
10Chapter Seven — Splice
11Chapter Eight — The Meter Reader
12Chapter Nine — Warm Bodies
13Interlude — Carol's Ledger
14Chapter Ten — 72:00:00
15PART TWO — THE CORRIDOR
16Chapter Eleven — Right-of-Way (Company)
17Chapter Twelve — Node HB-2
18Interlude — Black Valentine
19Chapter Thirteen — Rates
20Chapter Fourteen — The Foreman's Mark
21Interlude — Meter Reading
22Chapter Fifteen — Live Splice
23Chapter Sixteen — Halfway House
24Chapter Seventeen — Maya's Voice
25Interlude — The Good Seats
26Chapter Eighteen — Load Test
27Chapter Nineteen — The Old Crew
28Interlude — The Warden's Watch
29Chapter Twenty — Fault
30Interlude — Milton's Table
31Chapter Twenty-One — The Trunk Line
32Chapter Twenty-Two — Consolidation
33Interlude — The Spread
34PART THREE — PAST DUE
35Chapter Twenty-Three — Customer of Record
36Chapter Twenty-Four — The Dim Seats
37Interlude — Maya's Atlas
38Chapter Twenty-Five — Rate Case
39Interlude — Qualified
40Chapter Twenty-Six — Load Shed
41Chapter Twenty-Seven — A. Merritt
42Chapter Twenty-Eight — The Authority Falls
43Chapter Twenty-Nine — Surge
44Interlude — In-Processing
45Chapter Thirty — Span 47
46Chapter Thirty-One — Test Before Touch
47Interlude — The Yard
48Chapter Thirty-Two — Restoration
49Chapter Thirty-Three — The Bill
50Interlude — The Apprentice Book
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