And thinking of that now with the band of sunlight so pleasantly upon his chest and the smell of bacon speaking to him of a future he’d always dreaded and maybe wasn’t looking so bad after all, he thought again of Rain misquoting George.
“Once you know how its begins, then the rest’ll practically take care of itself,” is what he’d always told him.
Tracking then backwards in time, trying to recall how it had all begun.
A siren, he thought.
He heard the first siren just after midnight.
In Memory of George Jackson & Wayland Drew
About the Author
John Jantunen lives with his wife and two sons in Capreol, Ontario. His debut novel, Cipher, was shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize while his second, A Desolate Splendor, was also an apocalyptic thriller. No Quarter is his third book.
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A chilling portrait of a family fighting to preserve their humanity in a cruel and merciless world
The collapse of civilization has left the survivors scattered amongst a few settlements along the wilderness fringe of a land ravaged by war. Preyed upon by roving bands of sadistic ex-soldiers and ever at the mercy of a natural world that has turned against them, a family is facing their final days. Hope appears in the guise of their young son. Raised in isolation and taught by his father to survive at any cost, he is thrust headlong into a battle for the future of humankind after rescuing a girl fleeing from a savage and relentless cult bent on burning the world back to Eden.
Raw and unflinching, A Desolate Splendor weaves a stark, and eerily familiar, portrayal of life on the brink of extinction and heralds the rise of an exciting new voice in apocalyptic fiction.
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Copyright
Copyright © John Jantunen, 2018
Published by ECW Press
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Cover design: Michel Vrana
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Author photo: Jeremy Luke Hill
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events,
or locales is entirely coincidental.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Jantunen, John, 1971-, author
No quarter / John Jantunen.
(The Tildon chronicles ; book 1)
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77041-205-7 (softcover).--
ISBN 978-1-77305-212-0 (PDF).--
ISBN 978-1-77090-964-9 (epub)
I. Title.
PS8619.A6783N67 2018 C813’.6 C2018-902506-9
C2018-902507-7
The publication of No Quarter has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country, and by the Government of Canada. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays. Ce livre est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada. We also acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, and the contribution of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.
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