The Mountain Man Omnibus Books 1-3
Mountain Man #1-3 • Book 1
by Keith C. Blackmore, R.C. Bray
Why You'll Love This
Gus drinks too much, barely sleeps, and has a samurai bat named 'Scott' — he might be the most oddly lovable apocalypse survivor in the genre.
- Great if you want: zombie survival with a dark, character-driven twist
- The experience: gritty, tense, and quietly funny — dread builds slowly then erupts
- The writing: Blackmore writes survival as exhausting routine, not heroic fantasy
- Skip if: you want fast-moving plots — Gus's world moves at its own pace
About This Book
What happens when the apocalypse strips everything away except one man's stubborn, bourbon-soaked will to survive? Augustus Berry has carved out a rough existence on a mountain overlooking a city that no longer belongs to the living. Each supply run into the undead sprawl below is a calculated gamble, and Gus knows the odds aren't improving. This omnibus collects the first three volumes of Keith C. Blackmore's Mountain Man series into a single, sustained descent into isolation, dread, and dark humor — following a protagonist who is equal parts resourceful and deeply, recognizably human.
Blackmore writes survival fiction with an unusually grounded sensibility. The prose is spare but never thin, and Gus himself is rendered with enough contradictions and rough edges to feel genuinely lived-in rather than heroic. What sets this collection apart is its pacing — slow-burn tension that accumulates across three books without ever losing momentum — and its willingness to sit with loneliness as its central horror, not just the undead. Readers who prefer character-driven apocalyptic fiction over pure action will find a lot to sink into here.