The Borrowed World Box Set, Volume One: Books 1-3

By: Franklin Horton

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 25 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

This special box set edition of The Borrowed World Series contains the full text of books 1-3 of the best-selling series: The Borrowed World, Ashes Of The Unspeakable, and Legion Of Despair. This series has garnered tens of thousands of 4 and 5 star reviews.

If society fell apart, could your family survive? Jim Powell thought he was ready. He was a regular guy who travelled a lot for work and hated every second he was away from his young family. But when ISIS operatives unleashed a coordinated attack on America’s infrastructure, his entire world shattered. The electrical grid collapsed, communication networks were damaged, critical bridges and dams were destroyed, and major fuel refineries have gone up in massive fiery clouds.

Now, with an Executive Order halting fuel sales to the public, Jim Powell finds himself in a terrifying predicament. He's trapped hundreds of miles away from his family, and with thousands of stranded travelers and scarce law enforcement across the country, the miles between Jim and his family become a brutal gauntlet where the rules of a civilized society no longer apply.

Jim is a prepper with years of planning under his belt, but as he puts his preparations to the test, he soon finds that training for a societal collapse is very different from actually experiencing one. If Jim wants to make it back to his family in one piece, he'll need to find the strength and brutality to meet this new, dangerous world head-on—even if it means rising to unimaginable levels of violence.

Downloaded over 100,000 times, The Borrowed World is a series that you'll find yourself listening to more than once.

©2015, 2016, 2017 Franklin Horton (P)2023 Franklin Horton

Edge of your Seat!

Loved the characters, story, and narration. Learned quite a bit also.
Can't wait for the next series!

Great story

I’m not sure what the people who wrote negative reviews are expecting. This book is a great apocalyptic tale. I had a hard time turning it off. Kept me very entertained. Love the narration as well.

A must read

The story is eye opening of what could happen and survival of the prepared. The narrator is awesome.

Solid story line and very plausible

This story was well written and well thought out. There are many “sleeper” cells in existence that wish to do us harm. This story is quite feasible on how it could be executed and what’s to follow.

Story was easy to fallow and I liked that..

Great listen couldn't pull myself way, lots of twist and turns can't wait for books 4-6!!!

Excellent story, great listen!

Loved the whole story. The narrator does a great job with this unique and interesting story. Highly recommend!

Loved the entire series

This is a large series. I was able to buy two box sets then finished out the series with individual purchases one behind the other until the last book. Franklin Horton did an outstanding job. I added him to my list of favorite authors.

Was this an audiobook or a class on prepping?

A good narrator can make a bad book good and a bad narrator can ruin a good story. I once listened to Sissy Spacek ruin To Kill a Mockingbird and thought I’d never hear a worse narration. This one is worse. Having said that, the story itself, more specifically the first book disappointed me because there is no ending. None. It just stops and Book Two picks up right where One ended. I read/listen to a lot of these end of society books, probably more than I should and in all of them, you recognize patterns. Those common patterns are in this author’s work just like all the others. This one wasn’t nearly as bad as some. I thought the premise of the story, terrorist blow up all the refineries with a single mortar shot to each with the result that Uncle Sam immediately halts all fuel sales was silly. First off, I don’t think a single mortar into a refinery’s tank farm would have a cascade effect putting the entire refinery out of business. I used to work in one. A plant that boils gasoline every day has pretty robust firefighting capabilities. Second, even if you did kill all the tank farms at the refineries, there are still millions of barrels of gas in the pipelines and in other storage facilities. They’re practically everywhere. The knee jerk reaction of the government to immediately stop fuel sales and thereby stranding millions of people all over the country didn’t make a lot of logical sense to me. But, writer’s prerogative and without that bit of detail, there’s no novel. The other thing that rubbed me the wrong way was the character of Jim. He’s a state employee of the mental health service but he’s a hard core prepper with more guns and bullets than a Schwartzeneger movie. And so does his pal coworker. It seemed out of place. He also has a farm he bought, 50 acres I think it said, with outbuildings, heavy equipment and water. All that on a state salary? I need to work there. True to form in almost all the books in this genre, when the balloon goes up, immediately society turns into a dog eat dog world. I don’t see that. Not like the week of. Give it a month then let’s see what society does with that. A few days? I don’t think so. Haven’t decided yet if I’m going to continue the series. If it was a different narrator, I would. But it isn’t so…

SO GOOD

I love Franklin Hortons books and read by Kevin Pierce tops the cake. Interesting story line and charecters.

Real deal

Story is realistic no need for Zombies or Aliens shows how humans will react if such of an event ever takes place. Lots of detail u can tell that the author did his homework.