J. Curtis Dailey Author of Young Adult Science Fiction
J. Curtis Dailey Author of Young Adult Science Fiction
Christopher McMillan no longer holds his gaming skills in high regard. It’s not like he’s fighting in real wars like his father did before disappearing with the rest of his special forces unit in Afghanistan. Leading his friends in multiplayer game “missions” is just a way of escaping reality for a while.
Until the aliens attack.
In less than twenty-four hours, an armada from another world wipes out 99 percent of Earth’s population and vaporizes our infrastructure. Now, a reluctant Chris must assume a crucial leadership role in a survivor camp, scavenging for food and supplies while evading alien drones programmed to hunt those left alive. But the aliens aren’t his only problem. His former gaming rival and camp nemesis, Zane Hacker, plots revenge for numerous imagined wrongs. This time, their next battle won’t unfold on a computer screen.
Can Chris stop his adversary, exploit a weakness discovered in the aliens’ defenses, and unravel the mystery surrounding his M.I.A. father’s disappearance? With human survival at stake, the answers may only be found in space.
The author is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and board-certified Forensic Dentist who spent many years identifying long-missing military war dead recovered from the European and Pacific theaters of WW II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. He helped identify victims of several mass disasters, including Arrow Air Flight 1285R, the Burma Airway crash of 1987, the U.S.S. Stark, and the World Trade Center after 9/11.
Before becoming a dentist, Dailey worked in a steel mill, as a Recreation Department playground leader, as a jack-of-all-trades for a small municipal golf course, and as an exterior house painter.
He has lived in California, Colorado, Ohio, Germany, Hawaii, Texas, Tennessee, and Maine. He now lives with his wife, Susan, and dog, Norman, in Green Valley, Arizona.
Looking at camps along the shore of a small pond.
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