Lockdown
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Last published Sat, Apr 27, 2013
Set in a post nuclear strike Edinburgh, Britain, this is the story of those who survived, those who made it into the Army created Lockdown.
With every able body between the ages of 15-30 being put through training for the re founded military, they are forced to witness things that not even the toughest soldiers were ever prepared for. With the entire earth near entirely wiped out, they fear another strike, another attack.
Little do they know, they are the last left. They are the only survivors of an attack that backfired on its creator. They are all that's left to protect and rebuild the earth.
But can they protect it from their friends, from their families, who were affected by the nuclear radiation in a way no scientist could have predicted? This is their story, this is their Legacy. This is the Lockdown.
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