The Last Tribe

By: Brad Manuel

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Imagine being alone in the world, one of only a handful to survive a global pandemic. Not only do you struggle to find food, water, and shelter but you also deal with the sadness and losing everyone you know and everything you have.

Fourteen-year-old Greg Dixon is living that nightmare. Attending boarding school outside of Boston, he is separated from his family when a pandemic strikes. His classmates and teachers are dead, rotting in a dormitory-turned-morgue steps from his room. The nights are getting colder, and his food has run out. The last message from his father is to get away from the city and to meet at his grandparents' town in remote New Hampshire. Knowing the impending New England winter could be the final nail in his coffin, Greg packs what little food he can find and sets off on his 100-mile walk north with the unwavering belief that his family is alive and will join him.

As the fast-moving and deadly disease strips away family and friends, Greg's father, John, is trapped in South Carolina. Roadblocks, a panic-stricken population, and winter make it impossible for him to get to his son. John and his three brothers appear to be immune, but they are scattered across a locked-down United States, forced to wait for the end of humanity before travelling to the mountains of New Hampshire.

Spring arrives, and the Dixons make their way north to find young Greg. They meet others along the way, slowly forming the last tribe of humanity from the few people still alive in the Northeast.

©2016 Brad Manuel (P)2016 Podium Audio

Critic reviews

• Nominated: 2017 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator

ehhh

I purchased this book on recommendation by the narrator saying that this was the best book that he had ever narrated and I had just finished listening to another one of his books which was pretty good. Pish posh this book is mediocre. It is long which I guess I can appreciate because I pay for something to listen to while working but, the story is unrealistic drible in many parts both pertaining to the characters, situations, and dialouge. The characters are one dimensional probably because there are too many of them. This book is not bad but also not good. I have read much much better in this category. It did pass the time.

Storyline fell off a cliff

I get it - Manuel tried to do a book about the transformation of a post apocalyptic World into a potential utopia. No zombies, no Toecutter Gang; just man versus nature with the goodness that's in all men winning out. I was totally OK with that, and initially the book was kind of moving in the right direction and actually kept my attention. But then a non-decision was made by the non-leaders and it got stupidly weird (or maybe just stupid). While I was looking for that human challenge, that ability of mankind to use their wits to overcome the worse of adversity, what we got was a nonsensical fairy tale that could of ended with the sappy words "they all lived happily ever after". Unfortunately, by the time I got to the end, I no longer cared.

So well written!

This one I just couldn't stop listening to. Well written, and believable. I hope to see more from this author.

Wonderful story!

Ioved the book from the first chapter to the last chapter! I couldn't turn it off.

the last tribe

story was very interesting and well told. narrator did a terrific job. enjoyed the book