SURVIVE THE LAWLESSA Powerless World Book Two

Jack Hunt

Direct Response Publishing

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SURVIVE THE LAWLESS: A Powerless World Book Two is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

For my Family

Contents

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Prologue

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

SEVENTEEN

EIGHTEEN

NINETEEN

TWENTY

TWENTY-ONE

TWENTY-TWO

TWENTY-THREE

TWENTY-FOUR

TWENTY-FIVE

TWENTY-SIX

TWENTY-SEVEN

A Plea

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A Powerless World series

Escape the Breakdown

Survive the Lawless

Book #3 coming in March 2021

Outlaws of the Midwest series

Chaos Erupts

Panic Ensues

Havoc Endures

The Cyber Apocalypse series

As Our World Ends

As Our World Falls

As Our World Burns

The Agora Virus series

Phobia

Anxiety

Strain

The War Buds series

War Buds 1

War Buds 2

War Buds 3

Camp Zero series

State of Panic

State of Shock

State of Decay

Renegades series

The Renegades

The Renegades Book 2: Aftermath

The Renegades Book 3: Fortress

The Renegades Book 4: Colony

The Renegades Book 5: United

The Wild Ones Duology

The Wild Ones Book 1

The Wild Ones Book 2

The EMP Survival series

Days of Panic

Days of Chaos

Days of Danger

Days of Terror

Against All Odds Duology

As We Fall

As We Break

The Amygdala Syndrome Duology

Unstable

Unhinged

Survival Rules series

Rules of Survival

Rules of Conflict

Rules of Darkness

Rules of Engagement

Lone Survivor series

All That Remains

All That Survives

All That Escapes

All That Rises

Mavericks series

Mavericks: Hunters Moon

Time Agents series

Killing Time

Single Novels

Blackout

Defiant

Darkest Hour

Final Impact

The Year Without Summer

The Last Storm

The Last Magician

The Lookout

Class of 1989

Out of the Wild

Prologue

Merced County, California

Gilbert Sanchez was ready to kill the day they released him from jail. Trudging west down Sandy Mush Road, he glanced back at John Latorraca Correctional Facility, thinking any minute now they would realize they’d made a mistake.

But they hadn’t.

He’d been one hundred and fifty-two days into his sentence when the power went out. It had happened before. He didn’t think anything of it until they were forced back into the cells, and the COs turned to manual operations because the backup generators weren’t working. Five days later, as conditions got worse, rumors began to swirl that it was related to the pandemic, and that’s why he’d believed them when a guard showed up at his cell to escort him out.

“Sanchez, you’re up.”

“For what?”

“Release.”

“I still have twenty-eight days left.”

“Yeah, well, consider this your lucky day. The pandemic is your winning lotto ticket. Come on,” Marko said. Gilberto’s cellmate slipped off his bunk bed, thinking he was getting out too.

The guard pushed him back in. “Nope, not you. You’re staying here.”

“Hell no! Why’s he being let out and not me?”

“Because I’m better looking,” Sanchez said jokingly as the CO locked the door.

His cellmate banged on the door as they walked away, rage getting the better of him. “This is not right. No power for five days. The food has taken a nosedive, and now you’re letting out criminals?” A criminal. The term still hadn’t sunk in, but that’s what he was in the eyes of the law. He’d made threats to shoot up the Gustine high school, and he might have followed through if it wasn’t for his friend Gareth opening his big mouth.

He knew he shouldn’t have told him, but he figured he’d be on board and provide the firepower as his old man owned a gun store in town.

“I don’t get it.”

“You don’t need to,” Marko said. “Be grateful your name was pulled from the hat. If I had my way you’d be locked up for the next few years.”

“But there must be a reason. Is it to do with the blackout?”

“Yes and no.” He held a door open and ushered him through. He looked as if he was in a hurry. “The CDCR has been doing it since the outbreak. It’s meant to reduce population and maximize space. They think it will alleviate the impact on hospitals from those we would have had to transport there.”

“So they’re letting me out?”

“Crazy, isn’t it? I’d say look it up online but the internet is down.”

The CDCR was the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. They were the arm of the government responsible for the operation of state prisons and the parole system. He came to learn that it wasn’t just California inmates released, it was happening across the country, in every state, as the outbreak spread behind bars.

“Okay, but why me?”

“Well, you’re special, Sanchez. Haven’t you heard?”

“Special?”

Marko chuckled. “I’m pulling your chain, dickwad. No one cares about you.”

“So why then?”

“Do I look like Google?” He opened another heavy door. “If you must know, the CDCR is only expediting the release of inmates who have non-violent offenses, who aren’t sex offenders and have sixty days or less to serve. You fit the bill.”

Non-violent? He had violent intentions, was that not enough?

“And before you ask. Yes. I think they made a mistake. I don’t like the idea of sending you out on the street any more than the next guy, but obviously, intent for violence isn’t the same as what some of these guys have done. So they’re letting you go.”

“Well, slap my ass and call me Norman,” he said. “I won’t argue with that.”

“I didn’t think

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