The haunting screams of the dying sending shivers down his spine and he hides away in his hurriedly fortified home.

But as the days go by, the horror on the streets around him just gets worse. Those infected by the virus are quickly dying off, only to reanimate following their death, now rabid bloodthirsty walking corpses compelled to kill and consume the flesh of the living.ĭeciding that ignoring the call to duty would be by far the smartest (and no doubt safest) decision to take in the face of such a devastating global collapse, the lone Navy officer hunkers down in his secured premises, hoping to wait out the worst of the escalating madness. The virus has mutated into something horrific. But by now the epidemic has gotten out of hand. It’s not long before the call comes in from his Navy base ordering him to report to duty. With the reports escalating almost by the hour now, his preparations extend to fortifying his small suburban home – barring-up the ground-floor windows and hastily cementing broken glass around the tops of the property’s walls. And before you knew it, the Atlanta Centres for Disease Control were reporting a confirmed case of this new disease at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.Īlert to the snowballing series of events that were unfolding before his eyes, he starts stockpiling whatever essential supplies he can, including securing as much ammunition as he is able to get his hands on for the numerous guns in his possession. But then rumours of people coming down with the sickness started to crop up in Honshu, Japan. The US government soon stepped in and deployed some of their troops to bring whatever help and aid they could to the increasingly crippled nation. And that’s when the first reports of a strange type of influenza virus that was spreading across China began to emerge across the news channels.Īt first it started out as just a particularly robust viral strain that was rapidly spreading across China.

And so after a ten-hour drive, he finally arrived back in San Antonio, Texas. He was on leave at the time, taking a break from the military training in his temporary home in Arkansas.

It was almost four in the morning on New Year’s Day when he decided that he’d start writing a journal. The novel has since spawned the long awaited and eagerly anticipated sequel - ‘Day By Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile’ (2010). Bourne’s novel ‘Day By Day Armageddon’ had originally started out its life as an online fiction journal, akin to the likes of ‘Alpha_Dog’ (2002 - 2008). First published in a purchasable hardcopy format back in June of 2004, US author J.

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