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The Immune: A Post Apocalyptic Survival Thriller Kindle Edition

by David Kazzie (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 4,379 ratings

AFTER THE WORLD ENDS, THE ADVENTURE BEGINS.

On a warm summer night in New York City, a deadly virus is unleashed, burning across the globe like a wildfire and pushing society to the brink of collapse.

Adam Fisher, a physician in Virginia, watches in horror as society collapses, taking with it everyone he has ever known - even as he inexplicably remains immune.

In New York, U.S. Army captain Sarah Wells struggles to maintain a military quarantine while hiding a tragic secret of her own.

And in Georgia, former professional football player Freddie Briggs mourns the loss of his family.

In the silent wake of the pandemic, these three survivors, brought together by chance, will discover a stunning bit of hope, sending them on a quest across the dangerous ruins of an America blasted by plague - and putting them face to face with the horrifying truth about the apocalypse.

Fans of Stephen King's THE STAND and Justin Cronin's THE PASSAGE will love this book - join thousands of other readers on this post apocalyptic adventure and buy now!

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"Chilling and compelling, David Kazzie has created a masterful story of love, loss, and survival. The characters come alive on the page and, with his elegant writing, Kazzie keeps them hanging on, but barely, and you will be hanging on with them until the very end. This is a powerful story, wonderfully told." - Mark Pryor, author of the bestselling Hugo Marston mystery series.

"The character development is amazing, and you find yourself rooting [for] and hating characters in equal measure along the way, as they scramble their way through life and fight to save, or find their humanity. This book is a riveting read, and although lengthy, it has enough in it to keep you reading right till the end. Very sad at times, thrilling and chilling in others, I would heartily recommend this book." - Kindle Book Review

About the Author

David is a novelist and lawyer in Virginia, where he lives with his family. He is the bestselling author of The Jackpot, which was a No. 1 legal thriller on Amazon. He is also the creator of a number of animated short films, which have more than two million hits on YouTube and were featured in the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07RVDCNL4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grub Club Publishing (May 14, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 14, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.1 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 526 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1733134115
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I live in Virginia and work as a novelist and lawyer. My first novel, THE JACKPOT, was a No. 1 legal thriller on Amazon. I'm also the author of THE IMMUNE, THE LIVING, SHADOWS, NIGHTFALL, DAYBREAK, THE NOTHING MEN, ANOMALY, and GOOD AS GONE.

I'm also the creator of a series of short animated films that have nearly 3 million hits on YouTube and were featured on CNN, in the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.

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Customers find the book well-written and easy to read, with a plausible storyline that includes unexpected twists and turns. The characters are well-developed, and one customer notes the vivid clarity of the analogies used in the writing. Customers describe the book as fascinating, with a compelling picture and good metaphors, and appreciate that it includes four books in one edition. The pacing receives mixed reactions, with some finding it fast-paced while others say it's too slow.

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114 customers mention "Readability"105 positive9 negative

Customers find the book well written and thoroughly enjoyable, describing it as a real page turner.

"Wow! David Kazzie knocked it out of the park! This is a must read novel... nonstop action, characters you'll love, and a story that will, keep you..." Read more

"...Still, the writing was decent. Good character development throughout, but far too much introspection...." Read more

"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was very hard to put it down and I actually dozed off late last night with my IPad under my chin...." Read more

"...Excellent read!" Read more

103 customers mention "Storyline"92 positive11 negative

Customers enjoy the storyline of the book, describing it as a captivating and plausible narrative with unexpected twists and turns that keep readers engaged.

"...This is a must read novel... nonstop action, characters you'll love, and a story that will, keep you up reading late into the night!" Read more

"...This book was very well written and captured the reality of what a disaster of this magnitude might actually be like. Well done, David Kazzie." Read more

"This book! I couldn't put it down! An apocalypse full of suspense, terror, sadness and yet love still came through in the end. Excellent read!" Read more

"...Found myself speed reading a bit. Good character development. Good story. Worth a read. I'll continue reading the series." Read more

62 customers mention "Character development"54 positive8 negative

Customers praise the well-developed characters in the book, with one customer noting that the protagonists' activities and decisions make sense, while another mentions that the villains are tremendously evil.

"...This is a must read novel... nonstop action, characters you'll love, and a story that will, keep you up reading late into the night!" Read more

"...Still, the writing was decent. Good character development throughout, but far too much introspection...." Read more

"...Found myself speed reading a bit. Good character development. Good story. Worth a read. I'll continue reading the series." Read more

"...novel that delivers a great story, with a hero and a cast of supporting characters to cheer for, as well as a villain as dark as any fictional..." Read more

47 customers mention "Writing quality"33 positive14 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the book, noting it is well written and easy to read, with one customer highlighting the vivid clarity of its analogies.

"...This book was very well written and captured the reality of what a disaster of this magnitude might actually be like. Well done, David Kazzie." Read more

"...the fall of civilization and I was swept away by his beautiful, dreamlike prose in the midst of such horror...." Read more

"...skipped at least 1/3 of the pages because it is agony reading what a person is thinking...." Read more

"Strong writing, good premise and strong fallible characters make for a satisfying read...." Read more

18 customers mention "Interest"13 positive5 negative

Customers find the book fascinating and engaging, with one customer describing it as an immersive post-apocalyptic read that keeps them thinking about the future.

"...characters are well developed for this genre, and definitely an interesting mix...." Read more

"Interesting glimpse into what the future could hold if scientists have free hands...." Read more

"...I don’t know; I just felt like he was peddling old broken ideas, maybe he hasn’t sorted some of his own experiences. I got tired of it...." Read more

"...David Kassie did really good job ,especially keeping my interest. The characters were well developed. I definitely recommend The Immune." Read more

10 customers mention "Visual quality"8 positive2 negative

Customers appreciate the visual quality of the book, noting its compelling picture and good metaphors, with one customer highlighting its realistic depiction.

"...The author paints a compelling picture of the outbreak and the fall of civilization and I was swept away by his beautiful, dreamlike prose in the..." Read more

"Scary, because this can really happen. It makes it seem so real. It actually gave me nightmares!..." Read more

"...Mr Kazzie is not just an author: he is an artist. His wonderful use of imagery and metaphors is absolutely perfect...." Read more

"...All the shadows would be lost, the colors of the sky less vibrant, the landscape lacking contrast...." Read more

4 customers mention "Book series"4 positive0 negative

Customers like the book series format, with one mentioning it's the second book in the series, and several appreciating that the four books are combined into one volume.

"This was very good. I enjoyed reading it very much. There were 4books in this. Definitely do not want to go through any thing like it!" Read more

"...I am glad to see that there is a second book in the series. I want to know what happens next, which is always a good sign of my interest...." Read more

"A new author to me and a good read. The four books in one was nice and economical too. Character development was good and the plot was nice as well...." Read more

"A great read, I loved it and wanted more..guess what? There was another in the series, yippee" Read more

21 customers mention "Pacing"12 positive9 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the book, with some finding it terrific and fast-paced, while others describe it as too slow.

"Mr. Kazzies writing is refreshing and unexpected. The series is fast paced and a "can't out it down" type of read.Can't wait for the next one!" Read more

"...acknowledges that a virus can be very, very deadly or spread very, very quickly, but not both. I've read this before, so assume it's true...." Read more

"...It has well drawn characters who are human and flawed, a fast paced plot the gives you enough detail without bogging things down, and an intriguing..." Read more

"...This section was really unnecessary, and only used to trigger a character sacrifice and a "good guys win" conclusion...." Read more

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  • Mike Merrill
    5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Story!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2025
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    Wow! David Kazzie knocked it out of the park! This is a must read novel... nonstop action, characters you'll love, and a story that will, keep you up reading late into the night!
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  • Justin Cates
    4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Novel Way Too Much Introspection
    Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023
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    The story skeleton seemed heavily influenced by The Stand by SK. Still, the writing was decent. Good character development throughout, but far too much introspection. I probably skipped at least 1/3 of the pages because it is agony reading what a person is thinking. It is worse when they are mainly just struggling with some inner turmoil. I’ve always felt great writers do not spend more than a paragraph here-or-there on character internal dialogue. It’s just the dullest tool in the writing tool box, often overused and only for a few of dozens of characters. Novels are not much different from paintings in that respect. A great one has all the elements put together just right. 1/3 of a book of introspection is like if Monet only painted when the sun was at high noon. All the shadows would be lost, the colors of the sky less vibrant, the landscape lacking contrast. Think of all those elements that make his paintings feel so complete as literary tools. Why write a character’s emotional turmoil over something like fearing death for pages and pages and pages? Why not write in a memory, action, or observation and let the reader fill in the blanks? Why not have dialogue between characters instead of their independent thoughts strung out for endless chapters? This is why writers have to constantly read other writers’ books. Those tools to become a great storyteller have to be fashioned or else pages of useless introspection get skipped to add some value back to the story. As a reader it is all you can do to keep it moving, to avoid calling it quits and moving on to a different book or author.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
    Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2025
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    I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was very hard to put it down and I actually dozed off late last night with my IPad under my chin. That was very uncomfortable.☺️I finished the book early this morning with a nice cup of coffee and can’t wait to download his next book, The Living. This book was very well written and captured the reality of what a disaster of this magnitude might actually be like. Well done, David Kazzie.
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  • Judi Krantz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting suspense
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2025
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    This book! I couldn't put it down! An apocalypse full of suspense, terror, sadness and yet love still came through in the end. Excellent read!
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  • DarcyJ
    3.0 out of 5 stars I liked it...mostly.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2024
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    I feel like it bogged down a bit in the 3rd part of the book. Found myself speed reading a bit. Good character development. Good story. Worth a read. I'll continue reading the series.
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  • Jane C.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Starts out great, then deteriorates. Overall not bad
    Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2019
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    If this wasn't self-published it would be a three or even a two-star book. I cut "amateurs" some slack because I assume it's harder for them to get feedback.

    Immune starts out very strong, with a manageable number of characters, each with their own story line. A doctor, a soldier, and a professional football player. The characters are well developed for this genre, and definitely an interesting mix. The characters introduced later are one-dimensional and the book becomes simultaneously too drawn out, yet too superficial. The antagonist also has a story line. It's almost cartoonish, but still somewhat interesting. Again, it was not developed enough to be truly compelling, but took up enough space to become boring.

    Having a doctor (with a special interest in vaccines and immunity) as the main character would have been a great way to communicate some scientific details and hypotheses to readers - similar to what King did in The Stand with Glen the sociologist. This is a missed opportunity. The book acknowledges that a virus can be very, very deadly or spread very, very quickly, but not both. I've read this before, so assume it's true. So why didn't the doctor know immediately know that the virus was man-made? And how did it spread to the whole world if it was only released at Yankee stadium? Since symptoms showed up within hours, some quarantines should have been successful. This is an oversight, and would have been easy to address. I'm guessing in a sequel we'll discover that Hawaii was untouched.

    This second area where the book fell short was the rapidity with which electronic communications because impossible. I'm not an expert, but I think between cellphones, landlines, email, Twitter, etc. communication would have been possible for a longer period of time.

    A few of the people meet up and, as apocalypse survivors do, they decide on a destination based on official-type communications just before everything went dark. So off they head to St. Louis. They get there, but everyone is dead. This is a bigger problem than the other issues in the book. If the virus only killed 98% of the population, where is everyone else? There are over 100 people on my suburban block who are able to walk and drive. If 2 were still alive, plus 2 on the next block, plus two on the next block....Obviously at some point people might decide to hide. But this is a pretty significant flaw. good grief - just do a search and replace to change 98% to 99.9%. Problem solved.

    So they head west in search of the doctor's daughter. Along the way they pick up Max, a boy described as 13 or 14 who is written as though he is 3 or 4. He is described as clutching something in his chubby hand at at the end of the book he "toddles" up the stairs.

    The story lines for two of the three main characters sort of merge, and the third becomes a baddie. Going forward, none of the characters introduced are distinctive. It's like the author got lazy. More mistakes and plot holes start to open up. A diabetic gets sick, but doesn't think to tell anyone about the diabetes, even though there is no reason to hide it.

    They come across a group they decide to stay with. This part is pretty bad. This community is intact and functioning. There are technological reasons for this, but they aren't adequate to explain why this community is virtually unchanged, except smaller, while the rest of the country is a sea of rotting corpses.

    The doctor character becomes the leader. This is odd because he is a newcomer. This isn't explained, but what IS explicitly stated is that the soldier isn't leadership material - she's a foot soldier who just takes orders. Good grief. Her character was introduced in a scene where she was giving orders. She's a captain in the army with at least one tour in the Mid East. At this point all the characterization goes to pot and there is a tangential subplot where a character goes bad and does something. This was unnecessary, but I think maybe this book was originally four books? So maybe this was the meat of one book? After this diversion the book turns into a bad action movie.

    There is an incredibly ill-conceived action movie type mission with danger and excitement ratcheting up, but not really because it isn't well executed. This part ends with an scene that will definitely feel reminiscent of Batman episodes for readers old enough to remember them. One character is dressed for New Year’s eve and I actually started visualizing him as the Penguin in tails.

    The very last part of the book reverts back to a pure post-apocalyptic story where the characters are pretty much living in frontier times and learning how to do stuff. Why are they doing that instead of getting the lights back on? Because if they go to a more populated area there will be too many corpses. Well, OK. Sort of. But this assessment conflicts with the whole subplot about the town/city they left earlier in the book. Still, it's an improvement over the action movie / Batman episode climax.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the reviews say…
    Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2024
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    This is an amazing post-apoc story that flirts closely with the nutty possibilities of this world. There were a couple things that happened that I found frustrating as a reader, but in the end David Kazzie resolved them very neatly. Looking forward to The Living and might have a new author on my list of favorites. Well worth the read.
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  • jend AB Canada
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to put down
    Reviewed in Canada on February 11, 2023
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    Loved the excitement, thrill and edge of seat storyline. Read it over the weekend and onto the second book.
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  • Kel's Opinion
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Take on the Genre
    Reviewed in Australia on September 3, 2024
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    You know when an author is good because you can hate a character with so much ferocity. And trust me, I absolutely hated Freddie and Chadwick. To think it would absolutely be people like who would survive is read of people like farmers and a nurses and doctors and people would help establish a future for all who survived.
    Great books, well developed characters and great storyline. My only gripe is that I’d like to know what happened after.
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  • Samsara
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 16, 2022
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    Note - do not read the review titled ‘tailspin’ below unless you want spoilers without any warning! I’ve reported so will hopefully be removed.
    Anyway, back to this book. It’s really well written with well thought out and developed characters. Good pace, detail, description, reveals etc. There’s a few little details left unresolved (intentionally I’m sure!) but not in an ‘oh my god how could you leave us like that’ way. Lots of plot points and twists to keep it interesting and engaging but not so much that you lose the thread of the book or feel overwhelmed. It was very mildly cliched in places but then I think that’s the nature of an apocalypse novel. Certain things are bound to happen and there’s no escaping that!
    I’ve read a LOT of books on kindle unlimited and most of them you can tell are written by self published authors - good ideas but questionable in their execution. This is not one of those, it feels like a book by a ‘proper’ author. Well structured, thoroughly edited and polished in its execution.
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  • Jsnjase
    4.0 out of 5 stars Well written and paced.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2019
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    The initial storyline is incredibly gripping and pacey, but then settles down to the usual cross-country survival trek with the inevitable confrontation and rescue. The characters are a little wooden but believable, and the "facts" are well researched and presented - why you'd prefer to cycle than ride motorbike was hard to swallow. The ending is good but almost too clean and constructed, with more than a touch of serendipity to make it work. I think I'll leave the story there and didn't feel the urge to go on to the prequel. Good read for all us doomsday preppers and apocalypse fans!
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  • Jillian Rose
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good book
    Reviewed in Canada on September 23, 2018
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    The end of the world. It's exciting and scary at the same time.
    There were a few times I questioned what and why something was written, but I would recommend the book.
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