Trouble No Man: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

American Battle meets Into the Crazy in Brian Hart’s epic saga of one man’s battle to survive a hostile world-tracing his path from a self-destructive, skateboarding youngsters in the 90s to the near future as he journeys across a desolate, militia-controlled American Western to find his lacking family-perfect for fans of Edan Lepuki and Cormac McCarthy.

In the America of a forseeable future, northern California as well as the Pacific Northwest have become a desolate wasteland controlled by about Trouble Simply no Man: A Novel violent separatist militias and designated by a lack of water and fuel. Inside a town outside Reno, a middle-aged man appointments an undertaker and gathers the ashes of his lifeless wife to bring to Alaska. There, their kids await them-refugees from the destruction from the south. To reach his only staying family, the person must cross the treacherous, violent landscaping north by bike, his puppy his only partner.

Thirty years previous, we meet Roy Bingham. After a rough-and-tumble childhood, Roy is numbing himself with skateboarding, drugs, and sex, when he fits Karen. Sassy, soulful, and arresting, Karen pulls Roy into her orbit until she chooses to stop their nomadic way of life to put down origins in her hometown of Loyalton, California. Roy’s fidelity buckles under the commitment and after a boozy night in Reno he leaves Karen for the road and skateboarding.

Flashing back and forth in time across four decades in the life of a guy who is dropped even though he’s found, Trouble No Man delivers a resonant story of survival, assault, and family, established against the tumult of the America over the precipice to become an unfree country.