Description
Author(s): Owen Kessler
Publisher: Fifth Floor Press
Publisher Imprint: Fifth Floor Press
BISAC: Medical
Nobody was coming. That was never the bad news.
Dr. Owen Kessler spent twenty years getting ready for the end of the world – the well, the diesel, the fourteen-month pantry, the range cut into ten acres of east Bexar County. Twenty-six years in the ER taught him exactly how thin the wire under civilization runs. So he built for the night it snapped.
Then the grid over San Antonio dies – and stays dead – and the disaster that arrives is not the one he prepared for.
The city goes dark. The hospital’s generators run on a maintenance schedule nobody funded. The county road fills with people who never asked him a practical question about water – until they do. And the prepared man discovers, thirty-four days deep and one patient at a time, that the barn was never the preparation. The neighbors were. The knowing was – if he can learn to hand it over instead of holding it like a verdict.
A wife who runs a county from a rocking chair with a radio log. A twelve-year-old stepson whose video game turns out to have been a logistics course. A charge nurse who orders her doctor to keep charting when there’s nothing left to chart with. Triage is a grid-down novel written as one physician’s field record – the gauges, the nets, the arithmetic, the names – for readers of A. American, Franklin Horton, and anyone who suspects the scarcest supply was never ammunition.
Book One of the Triage Quartet. The county’s story continues in Golden Hour.
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