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The Last Ship by William Brinkley
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The Last Ship

A Novel

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Narrator Christopher Lane

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Length 29 hours 52 minutes
Language English
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Hailed "an extraordinary novel of men at war" (Washington Post), The Last Ship is the book that inspired the TNT miniseries starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, and Adam Baldwin, with Michael Bay as executive producer.

The unimaginable has happened: the world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the USS Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remainโ€”152 men and 26 womenโ€”to pull together in search of land. Once they reach safety, however, the men and women on board realize that they are the earth's last remaining survivorsโ€”and they've all been exposed to radiation. When none of the women seems able to conceive, fear sets in. Will this be the end of humankind?

This thrilling tale of postapocalyptic suspense is perfect for readers of Going Home by A. American, Lights Out by David Crawford, The End and The Long Road by G. Michael Hopf, and One Second After by William Forstchen.

William Brinkley (1917โ€“1993) graduated from the University of Oklahoma and went on to become a commissioned officer in the US Navy during World War II. He was a reporter for the Washington Post and wrote for Life magazine. Brinkley is the author of the bestselling novel Donโ€™t Go Near the Water, which was adapted to film.

Christopher Lane is an award-winning actor, director, and narrator. He has been awarded the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration several times and has won numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards.

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โ€œNevil Shute wrote a moving book, On the Beach, about the aftermath of a nuclear warโ€ฆNow William Brinkley has used the same premise to tell and even more fascinating tale.โ€

โ€œWilliam Brinkley writes in expert detail about life on the seaโ€ฆReaders will be engaged by this ambitious tale, which draws on the legacies of Melville and Conrad but is full of its own nuclear-age quandaries and horrors.โ€

โ€œAn extraordinary novel of men at war, a superb portrait of naval command, The Last Ship is a powerful and exciting novel you will not want to miss.โ€

โ€œBeautifully writtenโ€ฆas if the narrator has set himself the task of preserving the language, of writing it down lest it be lost foreverโ€ฆBrinkleyโ€™s plot contains a series of unexpected reversals and the taleโ€™s conclusion is unforgettably intenseโ€ฆThe Last Ship is a magnificent book.โ€

โ€œExtraordinaryโ€ฆHere is a true classic in the old-new literature of survival.โ€

โ€œThe author of Donโ€™t Go Near the Water superbly depicts life on a US Navy destroyer after a heavy nuclear exchangeโ€ฆThe captainโ€™s narration is thoughtful and sensitiveโ€ฆMore than a military adventure, this is a first-rate study of beauty amid ghastliness, engrossing to the end.โ€

โ€œIn an appropriately grim manner, Brinkley entertains the ramifications of survival in the aftermath of World War III. In the wake of a nuclear holocaust, a lone American naval vessel, the destroyer Nathan James, sails the seas in desperate search of an unscathed pocket of the earthโ€ฆNarrated by the destroyerโ€™s reflective captain, this taut adventure relentlessly examines the consequences of the unthinkable.โ€

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