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Maximum Violence

Arisen • Book 4

4.36 ABR Score (6.0K ratings)
★ 4.33 Goodreads (2.7K) ★ 4.73 Audible (3.3K)
8h 7m Released 2015 Sci-Fi

Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Three simultaneous battles against the dead — and Bray makes you feel like you're losing all of them at once.

  • Great if you want: tactical military action fused with genuine zombie horror stakes
  • Listening experience: relentless multi-front pacing with barely a breath between crises
  • Narration: Bray's clipped, commanding delivery is a perfect fit for military horror
  • Skip if: juggling three simultaneous POVs sounds exhausting rather than thrilling

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About This Audiobook

The fourth Arisen entry runs four simultaneous threads across the Atlantic and the American heartland, each pushing a different team to its operational limits: Royal Marines fighting through Canterbury's zombie siege, the Kennedy crew managing a potential reactor meltdown, a special operations team taking an island airfield with a dangerous history, and Alpha team fighting toward extraction against armed, living enemies who are more dangerous than the dead. Fuchs and James escalate on every front simultaneously.

R.C. Bray narrates with the pace and intensity the multi-front structure demands — his ability to switch registers between military technical detail and close-quarters violence keeps the four threads distinct and urgent throughout. At just over eight hours, Maximum Violence delivers what the series title promises: the zombie apocalypse at its most operationally intense, narrated by one of the genre's most capable voices.