Fortress Beverly Hills is post-apocalyptic fiction in the vein of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Lucifer’s Hammer, David Brin’s The Postman, and the Mad Max series of movies, with the modern spin that the apocalypse is a self-inflicted crash of the financial system and is rooted in our dependence on oil.
Ed Bookman is an average suburban family man. You’ll like him. Yet somehow he has become a key player in a plan that, if implemented, could jeopardize the entire global economy.
Jane Courtney has lived on a farm her entire life. Her quick wit and practical intelligence carried her to a leadership position with a small community of farmers in the Central Valley. So how did she become a celebrity in jaded Los Angeles?
Daniel Muhammad is an old school Los Angeles cop. He doesn’t have walls to help him survive the economic crash. But survive he does and through his leadership the violence and anarchy outside the walls of the fortress will finally come to an end.