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The Samaritan: (A Quiet Apocalypse Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Dave Jeffery (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.9 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
HeAR ToDAY …

The disease known as MNG-U has staked its claim on humanity and ended the world. Those who survive have been robbed of their hearing, deafened in this quiet apocalypse. But in the city of Cathedral, they have found sanctuary.

Inside the walls, the meager populace relies on harsh governance to keep them safe. Outside the walls they depend on Samaritans, search teams who scour the Wilderness for both resource and threat. Bound by an oath to maintain and defend their city, Samaritans are the line separating Cathedral from disorder and ruin, a mandate they pursue ruthlessly and without question.

Until now.

On a routine recon, one Samaritan will find himself injured and alone and in desperate need of guidance. Where loyalties between the oath made to his beloved city will clash with promises from his past. Now he must question everything he knows, including his own purpose.

Because, lost in the Wilderness, redemption is about to become the only way to stay alive.

The Samaritan: Book 3 in The Quiet Apocalypse series.

(cover by Adrian Baldwin; central art piece by Roberto Segate)
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B096ZXM68Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Demain Publishing
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 7, 2021
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Book 3 of 4 ‏ : ‎ A Quiet Apocalypse
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Dave Jeffery is author of 15 novels, two collections, and numerous short stories. His Necropolis Rising series and yeti adventure Frostbite have both featured on the Amazon #1 bestseller list. His YA work features critically acclaimed Beatrice Beecham supernatural mystery series and Finding Jericho, a contemporary mental health novel that was featured on the BBC Health and the Independent Schools Entrance Examination Board's recommended reading lists. A third edition of this book will be released by Demain Publishing in 2020.

Jeffery is a member of the Society of Authors, British Fantasy Society (where he is a regular book reviewer), and the Horror Writers Association. He is also a registered mental health professional with a BSc (Hons) in Mental Health Studies and a Master of Science Degree in Health Studies.

Jeffery is married with two children and lives in Worcestershire, UK.

For more information please visit: www.davejeffery.webs.com

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  • Pecan Pie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Re-education
    Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2021
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    THE SAMARITAN by Dave Jeffery is the third installment in a series about a meningitis mutation which causes deafness. Those born deaf (Harbingers) are blamed for the virus, and those who retain their hearing (Harks) are forced into slavery for those survivors who have become deaf after contracting the disease. Cathedral is one of the settlements which victimizes both Harbingers and Harks, while forbidding the use of sign language. Last but not least, the Samaritans patrol beyond the walls for supplies and survivors. The first two stories can be read in any order, but I recommend reading both of them before this third novella.

    This one hit me harder than the others in the series. You know you're going to be a mess by the end when you're covering your own mouth to stop the screams. The experiences of the main character is a study of coercive persuasion in multiple forms. Jeffery couldn't have shocked me more if he took a crowbar to my knees. The ending absolutely floored me.

    I highly recommend this series to all readers, not just horror fans...and keep in mind, the author wrote the first book BEFORE the pandemic.
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  • CNola.author
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Superb!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2021
    The Samaritan is the third installment in Dave Jeffery’s “A Quiet Apocalypse” series. The entire storyline is a disturbingly realistic take on what our ‘end of days’ might look like. The first two books are both thought provoking portrayals from opposite sides of the fence in this new world that Dave Jeffery has created. The first story, A Quiet Apocalypse, tells the tale of a captive hearing man or HARK as they are now called, that has been enslaved by a newly deaf man living on the outside of Cathedral. The second, Cathedral, shows us life from inside the city, from a newly-deaf female perspective on the city, its function, rules and purpose.

    The third takes on yet another perspective, that of one of The Samaritans, that helps to patrol the outside for dangers and Harbingers, or born-deaf people, who are being blamed for the MNG-U virus that killed most of mankind and rendered almost everyone else deaf. As a team of Samaritans set off outside the perimeter of Cathedral for a routine patrol and supply run, they discover a loner living in the Wilderness. He claims to know where a nest of Harbingers are and offers them up to save his own skin. Anyone found living outside the city is immediately taken in for evaluation or is seen as a threat to the city, if they choose to not conform.

    During the search, one Samaritan, Nathan, is engaged in a fight with his arrogant and drunken superior, Snelson, whom he kills. Soon after, he is attacked again but knocked unconscious. When Nathan wakes hours later, he discovers he is being held somewhere foreign to him, by a couple who are tending to his wounds and their little girl, Lily, who not only is a Harbinger, being naturally born deaf, but is also using the forbidden sign language. This violates everything he has been taught to his very core, goes against everything the city stands for, what he stands for.
    His life is now in their hands and it all harbors on how he reacts to their little girl. He can die or he can learn a new way, here with them, and have a home, a family life, away from patrols, away from Cathedral, away from the constant rules.

    He must learn to adapt or he must die. This theme is a constant in this book for this character as he faces monumental decisions in his life that force him to adapt or die. This book will shake you to your core. It will take everything you think you know about human behavior and turn it upside down. It takes all of those platitudes that we tell ourselves on the darkest of nights and shatters them.

    The emotion is raw, the grief is a tangible thing, almost a character in its own right and the sense of loss is more profound than anything I have experienced in a book in recent years.
    Tears fell from my eyes as I closed my kindle and I just sat, very quietly, lost in my thoughts, for a very long time. This is the apocalypse and it will shatter you.
    Kudos, Mr. Jeffery, Kudos. I award you, once again, Five Utterly Gold Stars.
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  • D.T. Griffith
    5.0 out of 5 stars A psychological rollercoaster of a story I could not put down
    Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2022
    The Samaritan was an incredible story loaded with raw emotions rooted in PTSD and survival, it left me guessing from one chapter to the next about where the story was headed. The ending was quite the gut punch, yet it made perfect sense in the realm of self preservation. Don’t let the beautiful prose and happy moments fool you, this is dystopian horror at its finest.
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  • Thomas Joyce
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must-read fiction for horror fans everywhere
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2021
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    As with the previous two entries in the series, Jeffery again offers us a different view of the strange world caused by the MNG-U outbreak. This time our main character is Nathan, an author of children’s books who was on the cusp of success and widespread recognition for the series of books he created with his artist husband, James, as the epidemic hit. As with the majority of the human population, he was robbed of his sense of hearing and, as society quickly crumbled, he was also robbed of his career and, most devastating, his husband. Finding himself at a loss and in need of community, he became a Samaritan for Cathedral, a guardian of Cathedral’s laws and protector of its inhabitants. Even if that included hunting those who still retain their hearing (a commodity in this new, dangerous world) and capturing and punishing “Harbingers”, those who were deaf before the meningitis outbreak, and who are almost universally blamed for carrying the disease.

    Jeffery excels with his characterisation, creating an internal narrative through Nathan that encourages the reader to empathise with his plight, providing flashbacks of his troubled upbringing at the hands of an abusive father and his undying love and commitment for his husband. These flashbacks are diligently placed throughout the story, interspersed carefully with the unfolding story to show the reader Nathan’s state of mind and justification for his actions, which are mostly governed by a promise made to his dying husband to go on, to survive, whatever the cost. Not only is the timing of these scenes meticulous, but they perfectly prepare the reader for what is to come, even if the reader may not notice it at the first attempt of reading. A conscientious reader (or anyone who reads the book more than once) will recognise the level of work Jeffery has put in to crafting this story, delivering a truly memorable horror story.

    Most of the action takes place beyond Cathedral’s walls, in the wild, lawless landscape of suburban Britain, where Nathan and his small team are on a reconnaissance mission. Team Leader, Snelson, however, has other ideas and wishes to hunt down as many Harbingers as he can, in the hope of bringing one back alive for the barbaric upcoming festival to celebrate the first Samaritan. Thanks to Snelson’s reliance on alcohol, the mission does not go to plan and Nathan is left behind, only to be rescued by a young couple and their daughter, who return him to their farmhouse for rehabilitation. Joseph and Katie, along with their young daughter Lily, have a great deal to fear from Nathan, yet their humanity appears to win through as they house him in a bunker on the farm grounds, while he recovers. Once Nathan realises who his rescuers are, he must overcome his own prejudices in order to fulfil his promise to James.

    The interaction between these two opposing sides as the drama unfolds is very well handled, Jeffery using the situation to examine how far we will stretch our prejudices to justify terrible behaviour, and whether or not people are fundamentally good or evil. Jeffery is to be commended, once again, on the prescience of his work—specifically the A Quiet Apocalypse series—whereby he explores humanity and just how cruel or generous we can be. Did Joseph and Katie rescue Nathan out of kindness, or for an ulterior purpose? Will Nathan truly see the error of his ways, the beliefs that have governed his life since the MNG-U outbreak and offered him shelter and community through Cathedral, or does he still see his saviours as the enemy? How far will one man go to keep the promise he made to his dying husband, the love of his life?

    Loyalties will be tested, and allegiances will be forged in the name of survival in the terrifying new existence that Jeffery has created. All of the characters will be forced to make tough choices that, thanks to the author’s imagination and masterful understanding of the human condition, will be far from straightforward and will have terrible consequences. An outside threat will force the hands of Nathan and his rescuers, something that Nathan cannot ignore, thanks to his nature. But it leads to an incredibly explosive ending that, while not having an impact on the world at large, will offer insight into the question of just how cruel the world has become. As with much of the preceding story, it is something that becomes more understandable with a reread but, at the time, will shock many readers. But, given all that Nathan has had to endure, in the current timeline and in the flashbacks, his actions become clear, whether readers believe the result to be cruel or merciful.

    As with the first two books in the series, we continue to be impressed by Jeffery’s world-building and character development. The dystopian nightmare he has created in the wake of a global epidemic is truly terrifying and, were it not for current events, we would like to believe it were too far-fetched to ever be anything more than imagination. The cruelty and barbarism of human nature is on full display, showing the depths to which we as a species can sink, the extents to which we will go to blame others for our misfortune, and our willingness to follow the prejudicial beliefs of so-called leaders when it seems like the easiest, least painful course of action for ourselves. But, as a counterpoint, there is room for love and compassion the world of the quiet apocalypse; whether it is in the innocence of a child, or the love of a devoted parent. Perhaps there is yet hope for humanity in Jeffery’s series, something we will hopefully find in the fourth book. The A Quiet Apocalypse series has become must-read fiction for horror fans everywhere, one of those stories that deserve to be enjoyed for many generations to come.
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  • Happy Goat Horror
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Superb Series of Books
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2023
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    Another excellent instalment in the A Quiet Apocalypse series. This time we're with a guy whose morals start in an absolutely reprehensible place, and as usual, the author is able to make us feel conflicted about the protagonist and how he came to the conclusions he has. And one again, superb and shocking ending.

    Absolutely worth your time to read this series.
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  • A BADDELEY
    4.0 out of 5 stars Ĺove this book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2023
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    Again I think I know just how this book will end only to be complete wrong. Looking forward to the Fourth book of this brilliant series
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