E E Hillenbrand

Age of Beasts E E Hillenbrand

Set in Ulster County of the Catskill Mountains in UpState New York, Age of Beasts is a post-apocalyptic book of what life might be without technology. This book follows Zebulon Tiberius Von Jager, a used up paramedic at the end of his career, and Andrea Monroe, a fresh faced college kid who became an EMT as a lark, as they fight to not just navigate life in a post technological world, but thrive. Zeb's lifetime of seeing the worst in humanity from the inside of an ambulance gives him skills and wisdom not expected from an 'ambulance driver'. Andrea has to escape the low expectations for today's youth to become the leader they need. Together, with a tortoise haired cat with 'catitude' they form a community that will reshape the world. Otter's Slide experiences the depths of human depravity and witnesses those who rise to the above all in the Triumph of the Human Spirit and the fantastically impossible