The world ended in pieces ? a deleted article, a video no one was supposed to see, a text message that arrived too late.
Donovan Roth saw it coming. Not because he was special, but because he was paying attention. A freelance coder in a small house south of Charlotte, he spent the weeks leading up to Day 0 preparing for something his wife thought he was imagining.
What follows is 5,293 days of survival.
The Republic of Reanimation is not told in order. It moves the way survival actually moves ? sideways, backward, in flashes of before and after ? assembling itself around a man who never stopped working, never stopped searching, and never quite stopped hoping. 124 chapters. One shuffled deck. Read the chapter headings.
The disaster did not create him. It revealed him.
Would you survive?
