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Start with Fortress Britain and continue through all 16 books in the listed reading order.
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Book 1 by Michael Stephen Fuchs • Published 2013
When a zombie pandemic wipes out most of the planet, Britain survives by sealing its borders. Inside this fragile sanctuary, an international Tier 1 team called Alpha is formed and sent into devastated Europe to hunt...
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Book 1:Fortress Britain
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2013
When a zombie pandemic wipes out most of the planet, Britain survives by sealing its borders. Inside this fragile sanctuary, an international Tier 1 team called Alpha is formed and sent into devastated Europe to hunt...
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Book 2:Mogadishu of the Dead
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2013
Alpha deploys to the ruined city of Mogadishu on a rescue mission that quickly spirals into a nightmare of tight streets, collapsing strongpoints, and terrifying fast movers. At the same time, pressure mounts back in...
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Book 3:Three Parts Dead
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2013
Adrift on Lake Michigan, Alpha drifts toward a hostile shore while a lone survivalist and her family debate whether to trust them. Elsewhere, the Kennedy runs aground off Virginia and Fortress Britain faces a new brea...
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Book 4:Maximum Violence
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2013
Royal Marine Commandos fight a 360 degree battle to save Channel Tunnel survivors before air strikes erase them, while the Kennedy risks its reactor to outrun an ocean of undead. Above, Fick leads a small Raider team...
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Book 5:Exodus
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2013
The remnants of organized forces race to pull people and resources out of doomed regions before they are swallowed by the dead. Alpha, the Raiders, and Royal Marines undertake overlapping evacuation and interdiction m...
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Book 6:The Horizon
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2014
As the Zulu Alpha grinds into its second year, Alpha team and the USS John F. Kennedy push toward a distant objective that might change the course of the war. Along the way they confront mutiny, new forms of the infec...
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Book 7:Death of Empires
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2014
The fall of great powers plays out in real time as Alpha and their allies fight across collapsing capitals, contested seas, and failing command structures. Every mission underscores that no nation is immune, and that...
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Book 8:Empire of the Dead
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2014
Alpha team, Royal Marines, and Marine Raiders collide with their most dangerous human adversaries yet amid a world already overrun. As they race for a strategic prize, they are forced to decide whether the bigger thre...
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Book 9:Cataclysm
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2015
The war against the dead reaches a new scale as vast hordes converge on key strongholds. Alpha team, Royal Marines, and Marine Raiders are thrown into simultaneous crises on land and sea, forcing impossible choices ab...
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Book 10:The Flood
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2015
Relentless tides of infected pour toward the last safe bases while the Kennedy struggles to stay operational. Alpha and their allies are dispatched on high risk missions to plug the gaps, knowing that any failure coul...
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Book 11:Deathmatch
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2016
Alpha and the Marine Raiders meet a human enemy as ruthless and capable as they are, while a British troop assaults an underground bunker to seize a potential anti zombie virus. At sea, maritime commandos fight to sav...
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Book 12:Carnage
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2016
The aftermath of catastrophic battles leaves Alpha, the Raiders, and their allies broken, scattered, and hunted. As the dead evolve and human enemies close in, the survivors must claw their way through fresh hell to k...
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Book 13:The Siege
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2017 • 1 recommendation
With Alpha battered and the infection pressing in on every front, CentCom faces its longest night. As political alliances fray and new threats emerge, the remaining special operators and Marines must hold an ever shri...
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Book 14:Endgame
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2018 • 1 recommendation
The four remaining Alpha operators launch their final missions into a dying London while Handon fights his way back from a coma at CentCom. As the last human redoubt is overrun, the surviving teams make a last stand t...
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Book 15:Fickisms
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2018
A collection of Master Gunnery Sergeant Fick's foul mouthed, brutally funny put downs and field wisdom from the Arisen series, gathered in one place for fans who enjoy his creative abuse almost as much as his marksman...
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Book 16:Last Stand
Michael Stephen Fuchs • 2019
A platoon from the 75th Ranger Regiment holds a lonely combat outpost in the Spin Ghar mountains as the world collapses into the Zulu Alpha. Surrounded by Taliban fighters, Spetsnaz operatives, and the undead, they ga...
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What is the best order to read the Arisen series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Fortress Britain.
How many books are in the Arisen series?
There are 16 books currently listed in the Arisen series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Arisen series?
New readers should start with Fortress Britain, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Arisen series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 2013 to 2019.