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For the first time, all THREE Madness books are offered in one heavily discounted title as The Final Outbreak. Get your copy today—over 800 pages of action—this huge discount won't last long!

Our End is Coming. It’s Closer Than You Think. And It’s Real.

The final outbreak starts with animals and moves swiftly to humans, turning the infected violent.

Cities fall as the outbreak spreads as far as the winds blow, leading to society’s end.

A lucky few may survive, but for how long in a world ravaged by an always present disease? Or is all hope lost?

This story is true, it just hasn’t happened… Yet.

Buy The Final Outbreak now to find out how it will start and get prepared!

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“packs a massive wallop from the first page of its prologue…” ~ Readers Favorite
“This tense and vivid novel excels at creating an atmosphere of claustrophobic dread.” ~ BookLife
“fast paced, well written and action packed... I loved the twist (at) the end.” ~ Brian's Book Blog

Rated R for Violence and Language.

Previously published as Madness (books 1 through 3), an Amazon #1 best-seller.

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"This tense and vivid novel excels at creating an atmosphere of claustrophobic dread." BookLife

"fresh, unique, and exhilarating... but must warn readers that once they've picked the book up, they'll be hard pressed to set it back down. I loved it. Really, really well done!" Readers Favorite

"This book is for those who enjoy an apocalyptic story with aspects of horror woven in. Immediately, we feel like we are placed in a story from the masterful Hitchcock; "The Birds." It has all the parts of a good tale while also sprinkling in pieces of humor along the way." Quella's Reviews

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Six of his ten books were #1 Amazon best-sellers in one or more genres. He's won two Readers Favorite Gold Medals: for MADNESS in 2018 in Horror & for Highway in 2016 in Thrillers. His work is both traditionally published and self-published. Often his thrillers are set in far-flung places, as Michael uses his experiences from visiting dozens of countries-some multiple times-over the years. His last two transatlantic cruises were the foreground of the MADNESS Chronicles. A serial entrepreneur, having formed multiple businesses over the years, he founded and still runs SmallBiZ.com, which helps small businesses create and maintain entities, forming almost 100,000 entities over 20 years of existence. When not running a business or writing his next book, you might find Michael hunting, traveling abroad, or reading a Kindle with his toes in the water (name of his publishing company) in the Sea of Cortez (Mexico). That's because he and his wife split time between the deserts of Arizona and the beaches of Mexico. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Format: Kindle Edition
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Print Length: 820 pages
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Publisher: Toes in the Water Publishing, LLC (8 April 2019)
Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B07QDV4PHP
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #31,384 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #247 in Dystopian Fiction
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CloudyEmerald

Well researched and written

Reviewed in Australia on 25 April 2019

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Great characters to follow through a very well written plot.
Horrible circumstances interspersed with some clever humour at times.
I think Horror not thriller would be a better description.
Looking forward to reading more from this talented author.

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aromaluver

Enjoyable reading

Reviewed in Australia on 7 May 2019

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I loved how the story follows through from beginning to end with lots of action and thought provoking insights. Value for money.

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Ian Stuart Ferguson

Not your run of the mill Zombie Apocalypse

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2019

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I have never been able to get into zombie fiction, finding just too ridiculous to be enjoyable, but the Madness trilogy steers clear of the gore and has a definite grounding in science to carry it off. The characters are believable and the reader is drawn into the plot making it a satisfying page-turner where you're eager to find out what can come next.
This will attract lovers of the zombie and general apocalyptic fiction alike. A follow up is a must.

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IMMANUEL

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2019

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Edge of your seat all the way through to the end with an unexpected ending and the plot thickens at the end how did the rest of the world cope with this outbreak we're sanctuaries set up like that on the island what happened to the kittens so many questions for the next book loved it all the way through, I couldn't put it down

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katie did

Will there be more in this series?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2019

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Loved this series, do write more, loved the characters and the settings, more please .

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Outbreak

Reviewed in Canada on 25 April 2019

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So much blood and mayhem. I could not stop reading with so much happening and despite the tragedies hope springs eternal.

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Jane C.

Couldn't finish

Reviewed in the United States on 6 June 2019

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I liked the premise - apocalyptic events occurring all over the world, with the story told from the perspective of characters on a cruise. But there was almost no info about what was happening in the world, because they had no internet or cell service. So this was closer to Speed 2 than The Stand. Really more of an action adventure story. The story unfolds slower than real time. At one point they are one hour away from an event and one hour later I was still reading mind-numbingly boring details about how people were moving through the ship. And I read very fast.

The author doesn’t have a good ear for dialogue, but that isn’t a fatal flaw in this genre. The main character is an author of end of the world books. Which would be a cute gimmick, except in the book the secondary characters act as though this is a real qualification. The crisis aligns with the plot of a book he wrote. Just by coincidence. Except there is no proof that what the main character wrote about is actually the precipitating cause of the crisis in the book. There are a few obvious attempts to be self-deprecating, but the self indulgence of the author/main character is really cringeworthy. He wife is an FBI agent who practically killed a colleague by being afraid of dogs. Why that was included, I have no idea. But by including it, but not really addressing her guilt (was there any?), makes them wife completely unlikeable.

It is apparent that the author doesn’t like fat people, which is fine, but then why set your book on a cruise? Cruises are for old, fat people. Don’t hold it against then when they go on one! Asians are referred to as Orientals. It isn’t done offensively, but it is odd.

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Mike Keller

The Rage Virus has gone viral! It began with birds, like a Hitchcock movie.

Reviewed in the United States on 25 April 2019

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The world has gone crazy, starting with the explosive eruptions of volcanoes around the 'Ring of Fire' and the haze of volcanic ash clouds blanketed the planet. Airline traffic was crippled as the powdery grit clogged engines. From the clouds of ash flew feathered fury. Nothing living escaped their wrath. Waves of mice and rats overwhelmed all in their path leaving blood and bones behind.

The explanation was found to be a parasite that is found in most mammals. This single celled amoeboid, named T-Gongii, infested the host brain, subtly rewiring parts for an unknown purpose and on known effect. . . until now. Thermophyllic bacteria from the volcanic clouds found a welcome home in the brains of warm-blooded mammals and merged with T-Gondii activating the rewired brains. Once activated, the host became able to identify anything not infected and became violently, ravenously, single- mindedly fixation on killing and consuming its prey.

The only safe place on earth may be the Regal European cruise ship, 'Intrepid', where Ted and T.J. Williams and the ship's officers and crew fought to keep the passengers alive and the ship afloat. Waves of red-eyed critters with murder on their minds wreaked havoc on the Intrepid and the latest wave of crazies were human!

This is a horror story in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Serling. The characters live and breath (for a while) in full Technicolor, brought to us from the mind of a master storyteller. The action is non-stop and insanely scary! Mindless rage and flesh-eating gluttonous appetites fuel the exciting prose. This is a must-read book, but choose where and when wisely! Read with a friend, or have a buddy standing by, but read it!

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Zuri

The Unfinished Apocalypse

Reviewed in the United States on 26 July 2019

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The story starts out well enough. It was quite clever that an author of apocalyptic novels is also on the ship, with his wife. The plot was gripping enough in the first chapters, with the very peculiar virus outbreak ... but slowly, verrrry slowly, it unravels. There is already an excellent one star review which goes into more detail, so I'll just add a few sentences to this review. There is far too much detail, especially later in the tale, about the technical details of a passenger ship. I found myself skipping through the last chapters because I lost track of what was going on. And then, a fault of so many apocalyptic novels -- although the the ship's bridge manages somewhere along the line to get TV news, one never really learns of what is happening in the rest of the world. Yes, there is this virus which seems to spread all over, but as usual what we are told are limited to three volcanoes, some earthquakes, and virus outbreaks in the USA. What about the rest of the world? An imaginative (and researched) "TV coverage" of the rest of the world would have made everything so much more interesting. This apocalypse did not sound like one, not really ... I lost interest three-quarters of the way through. But of course some main characters survive against all odds. Disappointing and petering out at the end.

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Barbara Gilbert

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on 9 May 2019

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The author did a wonderful job with this story. It was very engaging allowing the reader to visualize everything that was going on. Characters were very well developed. I enjoyed reading about the different reasons for the disease and became attached to the characters Ted and TJ. There were plenty of twist and turns to keep you engaged, as well as, sudden surprises. I do hope he does another book since I would like to know more about the daughter and etc.

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Ken Moore

Plausible human rage concept despite my hate of zombie novels

Reviewed in the United States on 28 July 2019

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I didn't know Banner wrote zombie books; I hate zombie books. I only bought this book because of Banner's "Stone Age" Series and his co-authoring of two other dystopian series with plausible end-of-world scenarios. I didn't know the book was about "people eating people." I have returned unread a number of books in this genre because the synopsis of those books I ordered hid the books agenda- hiding the zombie slant of the books. Banner is an excellent writer and has good editors. Despite not liking zombie style books, I decided to give this series a try as I had already purchased it and it was the complete series in one book. I did not expect I would finish the book, but I started it anyway. What a pleasant surprise that Banner came up with a closely plausible scenario in which people get infected and enraged by non-infected. I actually cared about the characters he developed and became engrossed with the actions taken by both the infected and non-infected. The stories of the individual characters, including the ones who died, were well written and kept my attention. I will never read another book of this type, but this was worth my time. I will always check on his new books to watch for real-world events in his fiction writing. Those I will buy.

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AJT

Fun read, good pace, interesting backstory to outbreak, characters shift in last third.

Reviewed in the United States on 16 June 2019

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Author clearly spent a lot of time research toxoplasmosis to make a believable cause of the outbreak that ends civilization. Overall, well written. Has generally an even-keeled pace, but picks up when needed. There is a bit of cliche and “Hallmarky” writing at times, but I can’t ding him a star for that, maybe half-star. That, and the protagonist (Ted) really has less of role than I thought he should’ve in the last third of the story. And the main antagonist (Eloise) disappeared. A bit of SPOILER here: but being inside the pod from her and Agust view would’ve been interesting. So the story really turned into being about Ted’s wife (TJ) at that point and another character (Flavio) who was more minor in the first 2/3rds.

Overall, fun read, worth the price of admission. Would like to see more of this story as he suggested he may at the end. Plenty of interesting ways to go.

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Beth Allen

The Final Outbreak

Reviewed in the United States on 24 April 2019

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Interesting and surprising. When the end of the world as people know it causes everyone to live their lives in terror, the people on this ship find a few ways to live a little longer. Survival is the only goal. Twists and turns keep you hanging in there til the end.

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J. J. Mount

A Different "Zombie" Apocalypse Book.

Reviewed in the United States on 7 September 2019

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An interesting take on the sorta-Zombie Apocalypse story. The history and science presented explaining the "Madness" is a little different from the typical story in this genre. The mix of characters and settings in this book is pretty interesting. A cruise ship on the high seas is a cool setting to ride out an Apocalyptic event. Most of the story was within my limits of believability for this genre. SPOILER: The La Palma volcano/tsunami thing was over the top for me, having studied the real scientific "risk" of such an event. But it is a useful plot device to explain why the cruise ship had difficulty in finding a port or refueling place. Otherwise, I liked the action scenes. My biggest overall gripe is that the "combined" book is simply too long for the real content presented. Way too many pages are spent in analyzing the thoughts and feelings of the married couple at the center of the story, with little payoff. Also, I thought that the ending section after the last action climax was weak. SPOILER: the time-jump epilogue was unsatisfying. A lot more could have been done here, both to fill out this story more completely and better provide for a possible sequel.

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Linda June

Long Story

Reviewed in the United States on 26 July 2019

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A world-wide infectious apocalypse turns normally peaceful animals into killers and infected humans into evolved zombies. You might think a luxury cruise ship would be a safe place to ride it out, but no way. On this cruise, nobody is a quick thinker, so they get infected, too. The tale centers on the passengers and crew of the ship.

Although the book had just enough intrigue to keep me reading, I began to weary of it by the time I was a third of the way through. The author tends to overuse words to get a point across, as though we wouldn't get it if he chopped the redundancies or used short, snappy syntax. Also, I really couldn't get into most of the characters even the protagonists. Maybe especially the protagonists. I'm glad I stuck it out, though, because I had to know if the ending made the journey worthwhile. I think it did.

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Susan Tydings Frushour

How Can You Experience Too Many Disasters?

Reviewed in the United States on 26 July 2019

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I like LONG drawn out stories with a lot of fast paced action. Be careful what you wish for. Tsunamis, earthquakes, plague spewing volcanoes, man eating Mammals, cannibalistic psychotic people, all adrift out at sea in a giant cruise ship. Wait, wait, give this book a chance. If you read just the cover you might be tempted to toss it, however it is a fast paced read the grows on you. I almost took notes to keep all the characters straight, on a warm summer day when it is almost too hot and humid to do much of anything, pull a comfortable chair over by the air-conditioner with a large glass of brew or lemonade and lose yourself into this story. I think you’ll be glad you did

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Sophie

First book in a long time I couldn’t put down

Reviewed in the United States on 3 June 2019

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I read a lot of this genre and this one is the best one I’ve read in a while. I couldn’t put it down and read the entire three book series every free moment I had. It has good character development and lead-into the event that happens. Hoping the author writes more books about the characters and next events.

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