Ray Wenck has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is The Endless Struggle.
The Long Search for Home
Summary
Bobby and Becca Warren are enjoying college life when a mysterious disease ravages the country. With chaos ensuing, they head for home to join their family, but when they arrive they discover their home has been burned and find the graves of their mother and youngest brother in the backyard. With scavengers swarming over the neighborhood, the siblings decide to search for their father using clues he has left for them, but before they can find him they are captured by a local militia. Caught between a psychotic killer and an advancing foreign army with no chance to escape, their only hope rests with their father, who doesn't even know they are alive.
©2015 Ray Wenck (P)2019 Ray Wenck
The Historian
Summary
Twenty years after the horrific nuclear events that devastated the world's population, an organized city of survivors sends out a small exploratory force consisting of scientists and their military escorts. Their mission is to locate new supplies of food and water for the growing community. Few have ventured from the city since the war and fewer returned. Lucas Sanderson is one of four Historians. His job is to document events, both past and present, for future reference and teachings. His appointment to the team is not a popular one with either the military or scientific team members. The journey, though fraught with danger, offers wondrous opportunities. That is, until they are captured by another community whose goals are the same as theirs - find new sources of food, which, by capturing the research team, they have done. With time running out, Lucas must find a way to rescue his teammates before they can be roasted alive. The fate of the team rests on the shoulders of the one person no one wanted to come along.
©2018 Ray Wenck (P)2021 Ray Wenck
Random Survival
Summary
If the world as you know it ended today, how would you survive? After a sudden mysterious disease is unleashed on the country, claiming millions of lives, including that of his family, Mark is left alone. The cities are in chaos with survivors killing for food and water. Knowing as supplies dwindle the insanity will spread to his neighborhood, he creates a fortress in the basement of his suburban home, stock piles food, water, weapons, and medical supplies, and stays out of sight during the day. Weeks later, the deadly street gangs have been organized, becoming a more dangerous and brutal army. In methodical fashion, they begin a neighborhood-by-neighborhood search, stripping houses and businesses of anything useful, killing those who stand in their way and enslaving the rest. Mark knows if they find him they will kill him and works to not only stay hidden, but conceal his stash of supplies. However, when a woman and her family are trapped by the horde, Mark attempts a daring rescue, and becomes the focus of a deadly manhunt. Trapped and outnumbered, the killers closing in. Mark must find a way to keep them all alive. A fast-paced action thriller.
©2015 Ray Wenck (P)2019 Ray Wenck
A Trip to Normal
Summary
Five months after the life-changing apocalyptic event, Mark craves normal activities. Having battled militias, gangs, and psycho killers, he'd just like to do something that reminds him of the world of his past. What could be more relaxing and normal than a fishing trip? Lynn, his co-director of the community, feels it is an excuse to seek action and violence and opposes the trip. After a bitter argument, Mark and his children Bobby and Becca leave anyway. Once on the water, they settle in for a peaceful day of fishing on Lake Erie. However, the presence of a pirate navy controlling the waters alters their plans. Fleeing a small armada of speed boats, they hide on shore, but witness the shooting of a man and the capture of a woman and girl. Mark sends Bobby and Becca for backup, taking the wounded man for medical help, then rashly attempts to rescue the woman and girl. Forming an alliance with a strange tribe living on the shores, he manages to free the girl but gets captured himself, and is transferred to a freighter the pirates use as a floating base. Returning with reinforcements, Bobby and Becca must rescue their father before the captain executes him.
©2017 Ray Wenck (P)2020 Ray Wenck
The Endless Struggle
Summary
With the mysterious event that devastated mankind now four months past, and winter fast approaching, Bobby, Becca, and Myron hunt for game. Though life is not easy, it has at least settled into what now passes as normal. That is until they discover a band of hunters stalking human prey. For Mel, Caryn, and Tara, the end of the world has been a constant struggle to survive. The new world has become chaotic and dangerous. Those with the power make the rules. Life has little value except in the depths of depravity in the minds of those who own you. Now, pursued by armed men, the three women are forced to flee or be sold into slavery. Bobby, Becca, and Myron rescue the women, but are then hunted themselves. With time running out and the hunters closing in around them, the small band must find a place to make a stand, a place to survive.
©2016 Ray Wenck (P)2020 Ray Wenck