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Wick - The Omnibus Edition Kindle Edition

by Michael Bunker (Author), Chris Awalt (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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This is the complete WICK Omnibus Edition, and includes the completely re-edited and expanded text of Michael Bunker's four WICK series books.

"...beautiful and haunting..."
"...Tolstoyan, and beautiful..."
"...positively anarchic..."

"Michael Bunker goes way beyond writing a popular thriller: he clearly has a literary agenda, making the W1CK series so rich and so deep you could analyse each and every page and write a whole book about it. I guess you'd have to call it W1CK1P3D1A." ~ Max Zaoui, Everyone's a Critic Reviews

In WICK 1... a man walked out of New York City after Hurricane Sandy and fell off the edge of the earth...

In WICK 2: Charm School... a mysterious town explodes in violence and America is dealt a deadly blow...

In WICK 3: Exodus... the world is without power. You are on foot and have no home. Any stranger you meet may kill you... and normal is never coming back.

In WICK 4: One Word of Truth... Weeks after the world has been crippled by massive EMP attacks, nuclear weapons are used on major cities, and survivors grapple with a changed world that may never be the same again.

In this much anticipated WICK Omnibus Edition, Michael Bunker's completed WICK series is finally bound into one earth-shattering novel.
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"Michael Bunker takes the End of the World Novel on a smart journey full of intrigue and survival. But this novel of societal collapse and dark secrets aspires to be so much more than just a mere thriller. The ruminations within are worthy of a modern day Thoreau for the new American Dark Age as Mr. Bunker's deft prose and stark imagery transport the reader to an America that might have been best left buried in the ashes of the Cold War." ~ NICK COLE, Bestselling Author of The Old Man and the Wasteland, and The Savage Boy
"An epic, thought-provoking portrayal of terrifying calamity. Therein however, lies a still-beating heart and a hopeful soul of a nation clawing for survival." ~ Eamon Ambrose, Eamo the Geek Reviews
"Michael Bunker goes way beyond writing a popular thriller: he clearly has a literary agenda, making the W1CK series so rich and so deep you could analyse each and every page and write a whole book about it. I guess you'd have to call it W1CK1P3D1A." ~ Max Zaoui, Everyone's a Critic Reviews
"Michael Bunker is the sort of writer you read compulsively not because his books are thrilling (they are) or because his prose is elegant (it is) but because, like a tribal storyteller, he weaves intoxicating tales that elevate your mind and transport your soul to another place altogether." ~ Jason Gurley, Bestselling Author of Greatfall

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WICK is a stand-alone pre-apocalyptic thriller, and sets the stage for the apocalyptic social, economic, and structural collapse of Western Civilization that leads us, 20 years later, into the events of Michael Bunker's thriller - The Last Pilgrims.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00EC1PN6O
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Refugio Publishing; First edition (November 8, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 8, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 7758 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 574 pages
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Michael Bunker

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Michael Bunker is a USA Today Bestselling author, off-gridder, husband, and father of four children. He lives with his family in Central Texas, where he reads and writes books...and occasionally tilts at windmills. In November of 2015, Variety Magazine announced that Michael had sold a film/tv option for his bestselling novel Pennsylvania to Jorgensen Pictures. JP is currently developing Pennsylvania for production into a feature film. As of May 2019 Patrick Tatopoulos is slated to direct the Pennsylvania feature film.

Michael has been called the "father" of the Amish/Scifi genre but that isn't all that he writes. He is the author of several popular and acclaimed works of dystopian sci-fi, including the Amazon top 20 overall bestselling Amish Sci-fi thriller Pennsylvania, the groundbreaking dystopian vision Hugh Howey called "a brilliant tale of extra-planetary colonization." He also has written the epic post-apocalyptic WICK series, the Amish/Robot thriller Brother, Frank, as well as many nonfiction works, including the non-fiction Amazon overall top 30 bestseller Surviving Off Off-Grid. Michael was commissioned by Amazon.com through their Kindle Worlds and Kindle Serials programs to write the first ever commissioned novel set in the World of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.

In late April of 2015, Michael released his novel Brother, Frank to fantastic reviews, and Brother, Frank is currently the target of film/tv option negotiations.

Michael has been featured on NPR, HuffPost Live, Molly Green, and Ozy.com, along with hundreds of print, radio, and podcast interviews.

On November 21st, 2014 Tales From Pennsylvania, a fanfic short story anthology featuring 10 top speculative fiction authors writing fanfic short stories in the world of Michael Bunker's Pennsylvania, was released in paperback and e-book format. More than twenty authors have been (or will be) writing fanfic in the world of MB's Pennsylvania.

Readers who subscribe to Michael's newsletter get free copies of his books, usually before they're published: http://michaelbunker.com/newsletter

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Max Zaoui
5.0 out of 5 stars W1CK1L3AKS-free review
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2013
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Dear review reader,

How I envy you. If you are reading this, there's a good chance it means that you have never read W1CK and you're trying to decide whether or not you'll give the Omnibus a chance.

If you do, you'll get thrown into the kind of mindbending narrative that redefines the way you thought about books.

And that's why I envy you. I wish I was, just like you, about to embark on this fabulous adventure for the first time.

It makes me kind of mad, actually.

Sure, I could reread it, but the pleasure of entering that world without knowing what to expect can't be repeated. Well, actually, that's not quite true. The feeling itself can be repeated: I had experienced it before when I discovered Hugh Howey's Wool.

You see? That's the type of experience you're about to face.

OK. A few arguments to help you decide, then. But no spoilers here, don't worry.

First, it's cheaper than buying the four separate books that constitute the whole story.

Second, no, you don't need to be a science-fiction addict, or a dystopia-lover, or a survivalist buff, or anything really, to love this book. Except, and that's my third point...

Third, this book is first and foremost real, good, well-written Literature with a capital L. I mean a book written by an author, not just a writer. I mean a book in which each word was carefully weighed and compared with others before being chosen for its surface and hidden meaning. I mean a book that will thrill you first with its narrative, but that will more importantly keep you on your toes and make you read between the lines to get the deeper meaning.

About that. And I could have said... Wait, I'll just do it:

Fourth, don't worry about that deeper meaning. You may have read about Michael Bunker before, you might have seen a photo or two, and you could be worried that his intentions don't fit in with your lifestyle or beliefs. I'm saying this because that's what I felt at first when I started. I was a little suspicious.

So let me just get things straight with that "deeper meaning" thing. It's not about religion or survivalism or anything like that. Once again, it's all about Literature and tying things together, putting multiple meanings into words, making Sense.

An author, what I personally call an author, is not someone who spends hours a day just to come up with flips and twists. There has to be more. And there is with Bunker.

It won't try to convert you to anything or ask you to believe in anything. It's "just" an awesome narrative written like a classic by a master of letters.
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Rob Logos
4.0 out of 5 stars We are beginning to recognize the disease. What is the cure?
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2014
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I have reluctantly come to a perspective similar to that of Michael Bunker. After years of searching for a reason to hope for a better fate for mankind than reality provided and not finding it, I have given in to a kind of desperate attempt on the one hand to find a way to survive the looming disaster and a fatalistic view of my chances in my present circumstances on the other.
The book has some flaws as other reviewers have pointed out. But I find none that in any way would have me discourage others from reading it. In fact, I will encourage others to read it. But predisposition will determine its impact.
Chris Hedges reflects much of what Bunker is telling us in The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies.
"The human species, led by white Europeans and Euro-Americans, has been on a 500-year-long planetwide rampage of conquering, plundering, looting, exploiting and polluting the earth—as well as killing the indigenous communities that stood in the way. But the game is up. The technical and scientific forces that created a life of unparalleled luxury—as well as unrivaled military and economic power for a small, global elite—are the forces that now doom us. The mania for ceaseless economic expansion and exploitation has become a curse, a death sentence. But even as our economic and environmental systems unravel, after the hottest year [2012] in the contiguous 48 states since record keeping began 107 years ago, we lack the emotional and intellectual creativity to shut down the engine of global capitalism. We have bound ourselves to a doomsday machine that grinds forward.
Complex civilizations have a bad habit of ultimately destroying themselves. Anthropologists including Joseph Tainter in “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” Charles L. Redman in “Human Impact on Ancient Environments” and Ronald Wright in “A Short History of Progress” have laid out the familiar patterns that lead to systems breakdown. The difference this time is that when we go down the whole planet will go with us. There will, with this final collapse, be no new lands left to exploit, no new civilizations to conquer, no new peoples to subjugate. The long struggle between the human species and the earth will conclude with the remnants of the human species learning a painful lesson about unrestrained greed, hubris and idolatry."
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LooziAnna
5.0 out of 5 stars Pulled into the WICK vortex...
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2013
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I was pulled into the WICK vortex and Michael Bunker's dystopian world when I happened upon a free offer for the first book of the series on Amazon. I was so absorbed by the story, that I immediately shared it with a friend, and began waiting impatiently for the second part to come out.

Not knowing where Michael was going with the story, I had a hard time understanding WICK2, and read it twice through to grasp its meaning. Still, I was anxious to dive into book #3.

With the Omnibus edition of WICK now available, you don't have to wait for months to read "what happens next?!" It's all there in one big novel!

In the dystopian genre, I think this book is among the best. It can be read on many different levels; you can read it as an intriguing story, or you can read it for deeper meaning. You can read it as fantastical fiction. You can read it as a 'survival' handbook, and travel with the characters as they learn from their mistakes, surviving (or not) in a post-apocalyptic world. You can read it as a "what if..." story, and wonder if our world of the future will be similar.

Michael Bunker has the ability to take philosophies of politics and human nature, as well as survival skills, and wrap them around a compelling story. His characters compose cryptic poetry and quote Shakespeare, Hemingway, Tolstoy, and other literary giants. There are descriptive paragraphs of great art and artists... --All of this as we read the tale of a solitary traveler who meets and unknowingly touches the lives of many people in the span of only a few days, extending and weaving that influence far beyond his unfortunate demise.

Michael Bunker is a good writer and a deep thinker. I enjoyed this book. If you enjoy dystopian, post-apocalyptic stories, I think you will enjoy this one too.
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joaquin knierim
5.0 out of 5 stars Extrem spannend, philosophisch, bedrückend, traurig.
Reviewed in Germany on April 8, 2014
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Fesselnd bis zum Ende, in der Hoffnung das es weitergeht. Sehr empfehlenswert für SciFi Fans, besonders für die apokalyptischen... Freue mich auf die Fortsetzung
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Eamon Ambrose
5.0 out of 5 stars An epic chronicle of catastrophe and survival
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2013
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A bestselling self-published collection of four novellas chronicling the downfall of society as we know it which begins as one man's journey away from a hurricane-ravaged city to return home and quickly turns into a Cold War thriller spiced with mind-bending plot twists and genuine tension .

As the destruction snowballs, the remaining characters caught up in this mayhem are thoughtfully portrayed, now being guided and misguided by fear and the need for survival. Morality is no longer black and white and it's not so easy to judge people in this situation when you start to ponder what you might have done in their place.

The feel and pace of each section is quite different, masterfully blending real-world recent historical events with equally masterful fiction while asking many questions about how far we are prepared to go to survive a situation beyond anyone's control. It's quite hard to give any major plot details as a result but suffice to say Messrs. Bunker & Awalt have put a lot of thought and research in to the science involved in the situations they are portraying and this greatly helps the narrative, which whisks along nicely while fiendishly planting a seed in the mind of the reader that the events unfolding before them are entirely possible, without sounding like a frothy-mouthed conspiracy theorist.

This is essentially where the Wick series does it's best work. Bunker writes with the knowledge, attitude and intelligence of an educator, but a good one. Not the self-imploding hoary old crank who's despises every student who's ever passed through his classroom, but the rare confident, dedicated, engaging one we see all too little of these days, guiding the reader but ultimately allowing them to make their own observations.

It's also a cautionary tale reminding us how much we rely on and worryingly almost worship technology for even the most basic of lifestyles these days and how quickly this can be taken away from us by the very technology we worship. However this is achieved without being overly preachy and to a certain extent laments the loss of the more positive aspects of the technology we use today.

An epic, thought-provoking portrayal of terrifying calamity. Therein however, lies a still-beating heart and a hopeful soul of a nation clawing for survival.
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Tripper
4.0 out of 5 stars Good wholesome read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2014
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Plenty to get into,I really enjoyed the first and last sections of the book,the middle didn't quite have the strong story of the others for me but in all
I really enjoyed it. Will be watching out for more.
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M. Klode
3.0 out of 5 stars Interessante Ideen aber konfus
Reviewed in Germany on December 1, 2013
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Dieses Buch hatte viele interessante Ideen, aber wie auch schon andere Rezensenten bemerkt haben, fehlt ein wenig der rote Faden. Wer auf TEOTWAWKI-Szenarien steht, wird hier schon einige neue Ideen entdecken, und die philosophisch-weltanschaulichen Ausführungen sind auch maaal interessant.
Ansonsten sehr konfus, keine klare Storyline, kein anständiger Spannungsbogen. Wären es 4-5 getrennte Kurzgeschichten gewesen, wäre der Autor besser gefahren.
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Hugh
5.0 out of 5 stars Get this book and enjoy it.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2013
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I had to wait for each installment in the Wick series, you now can get the Omnibus Edition, fully re-edited. You lucky people.

This may be a fictional story but the truth that underlies the fiction will leave you wanting more and more. I could go into a big description of how one man can touch many peoples lives or how the book exposes our fragile society for what it truly is, but the real thing is "Buy This Book."

You will not be disappointed.
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