My wife and I read Lights Out at the same time. Could it happen? What would we do? Are we ready? Crawford states he wrote the book, "to try to get people to prepare." The novel does stir thinking and discussion. Others, who see the novel as simply as an action novel might be quicker to fault technique. However, the EMP threat is so real and compelling I can forgive some bad editing (that will hopefully be corrected in latter editions) and the expository telling, instead of showing, through much of the story. Most reviews that are critical of the book fault the writing and that is what compelled me to give it four stars. There is definitely something of David Crawford in the character of Mark Turner. The author, David Crawford, states in his bio that he resides in San Antonio and is "an avid outdoorsman who likes to hunt, fish, hike, off-road, and shoot," and that he is a black belt in Karate. It is now available in a 600-page paperback edition and on in Kindle format where it is selling well. Lights Out has been downloaded from the internet in PDF format over three million times. The novel follows Mark, his friend Jim Davis and a growing community of family and friends as they work feverishly to protect themselves and their families while civilization unravels around them. Government struggles to maintain order and provide relief, but in the cities, society quickly breaks down. Telephones, and most radios go silent, late model cars die, planes fall from the sky. Mark Turner is at work in the San Antonio area when the Burst, as it is called in the novel, sends the nation into chaos.
When an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack destroys the power grid, this intriguing novel begins.
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