After the Quiet: Book 1

By Ron Hargrove

After the Quiet is a realistic post-apocalyptic survival novel about what happens after the world doesn't explode-it just stops answering.

A fast-moving airborne virus erases humanity in days, leaving Adam Nolan alive by accident at a remote diamond mine. When the radios go silent and no one comes back, he shuts down the last working systems and walks away-south, through empty highways and hollow cities, toward a climate he can endure and water he can count on.

Adam survives the only way he knows how: with discipline and knowledge. Fuel degrades. Machines fail. Wildlife reclaims suburbs and farmland. He scavenges, builds, and constructs simple systems meant to last-leaning on engineering principles, field guides, and the recorded problem-solving humanity left behind.

But endurance isn't the same as meaning.

Years into isolation, Adam faces the real question: is survival alone enough-or does staying fully human require risking what he's built?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQPZ3JSC
• ISBN13: 9798250026789
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"