Black Death Survival

By: Jon Cronshaw

Narrated by: Scott Fleming

The end of antibiotics. The return of the plague.

Liam will do anything to keep his family safe. Reeling from the death of his mother, Liam and his wife, Jenna, must do all they can to reunite with their four-year-old son, Tommy. Armed with only a cricket bat, the couple must travel across the country to reach their child. Can they evade the authorities and survive life on the road? Who are the plague doctors, and what do they want? How far will Liam and Jenna go to get Tommy back?

From the best-selling author of The Wasteland series comes a new story of hope and survival set in the shadow of the Black Death. This gritty post-apocalyptic thriller takes place in the UK, featuring real locations across England and Wales.

If you enjoy flawed heroes, families battling the odds, and tales of ordinary people in extraordinary times, you’ll love Black Death Survival. This is audio edition also includes the story Black Death London.

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Excellent!

Excellent post apoc end of the world story. Great characters and even a few I just hated but that's how stories work. Decent narration but a bit hard to understand in parts due to the heavy British accent but still a very enjoyable book.

The Doctors Are In

Black Death Survival is overall a quality entry in the post-apocalyptic genre. The character development is a bit light, resulting in characters that are hard to care much about. The Doctors group is an interesting spin on the usual gang protagonist, which is good to see. The ending feels a bit rushed, but given the Author's explanation of an intended collaborative trilogy that fell through, it makes sense why things had to be tied up likely quicker than originally designed.

Jon Cronshaw at his best!

The audiobook version of Black Death Survival is really two stories – the first is the title story, followed by Black Death London. While I had previously read both of these stories separately at different times, I was thrilled that I was able to listen to both of them back-to-back. The listening experience brought the overall plague story full circle providing a depth to the overall story that wasn’t present when reading the stories separately.


Black Death: Survival provides an excellent example of Jon Cronshaw’s abilities, I’ve read several his other stories/books and this one took me by complete surprise. The characters, action, and dialogue in this story are all an interesting departure from his previous stories, and all three of those items came together to create an excellent story.

Black Death London looks at the plague from the perspective of politicians and their want to leverage the plague for their own purposes. Along with being an exceptionally good tale, I loved that this story is an excellent political satire piece that paints a true picture of politicians. Scott Fleming’s narration of both stories is excellent I especially enjoyed the inflections he used in the more satirical parts of Black Death London.

If you are a fan of Mr. Cronshaw’s work, this is a must-read addition, and if you are new to his work, grab a copy and settle into a well written post-apocalyptic story. I received a Review Copy through Story Origin and chose to provide this review.

A tale of the animalistic behavior within us all

Black Plague Survival is a rather interesting and revealing aspect of just how far our society may degenerate into a (God forbid!) "dog eat dog" world, yet a chosen few try as hard as they can to remain above the muck and mire and hold the family unit together.
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The book could take place tomorrow, but to the author's credit he managed to avoid a lot of the technical aspects of how pandemics are managed, rather he focused on the behavior of the beasts of our society and how quickly things can / could fall apart, and just how far they might "fall..."
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The book is well written, but my American ears are not accustomed the vernacular and speech patterns of the United Kingdom.
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What I liked was how much down and dirty / the nitty gritty the author portrays his characters.
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The only thing I struggled with was a few of the sentences almost escaped my understanding.
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Nice work to the author, this was a pretty accurate tale of the beast that resides within each and every one of us.

It Isn't Zombies....And That's Good!!

It's very refreshing to listen to a post apocalyptic story that doesn't have anything to do with zombies. I found the book to be very well written, and easy to follow, but with voice acting that left nothing to be desired. I whole heatedly endorse this book as I thoroughly enjoyed it!!