TIER Unit 3-1 Day Two: Lockdown

by Lincoln James

The day after a series of devastating attacks almost brought Los Angeles to its knees, the city is locked down tight. Jack Miller’s specialist Terrorist Incident Emergency Response Unit - or “TIER” Unit – is charged with rounding up the people who orchestrated the atrocity.

Digging into the prime suspect, the team uncovers a series of secret operations that failed to predict the killings, and find themselves hindered by a bureaucracy determined to hide their mistakes, and a terror cell willing to strike closer to home than ever.

But lurking in the background is real anger, and across the country protests against Muslims increase in both number and scale, while Muslim communities – targeted by law enforcement agencies – grow angry at such blatant racial profiling. Time is running out for Jack Miller to produce results before tensions boil over.

TIER Unit 3-1 sees Jack Miller and his elite FBI unit investigate, attack, and attempt to bring down a terrorist plot that threatens more than just their city; now their families are in danger too.

Day Two: Lockdown is the second of five novellas continuing the story of a man leading the counter-attack against an audacious plot and a vengeance-obsessed fanatic.

AUTHOR Q&A

Q: What’s the conceit here? Why five books?

A: The idea is to structure the adventure like a TV series. Five books laid out in which each “episode” sees a different objective within a bigger whole. Inspired by shows like Quantico, 24, Homeland. The series is currently in Kindle Unlimited, so if you’re subscribed you can get them all.

Q: So it’s not like a series of cliffhangers?

A: Not like a guy with a gun to his head or falling out of a helicopter, then “duh-duh-duuuuh!” Fade to black. No. The days are complete, but the ultimate goal in the story – to catch the terrorist mastermind – is not resolved until the fifth and final book. For example, the first book is an action adventure starting with the initial attacks, the second deals with the aftermath and the revenge attacks getting more personal, then the third is more of an assassination thriller, as they act on information acquired in the second, and so on.

Q: And they’re all shorter than most novels?

A: Each day is about half the length of a regular novel, although many authors are writing shorter works these days. When a story doesn’t need to be 100,000 words, why not write it in 30-40,000? You see this with James Patterson and his “Bookshots” range, which are shorter, incredibly fast-paced novellas. Same with Lee Child’s Jack Reacher shorts. That’s the kind of pace and tone I’m aiming for with the TIER Unit books.

Q: The story goes big. Do some say too big?

A: Early readers have suggested it goes quite bananas. But in a good way! It’s elevated reality, not a gritty treatise on the War on Terror. It's entertainment.

159 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Dianne P. Walker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good idea

OK, I admit straight up....I am a grammer Nazi. It's genetic. While I throughly understand how someone as smart and sharp as Jack could work his way into this kind of job, I cannot understand his seeming inability to improve his command of the English language.
That aside (I had to forcefully ignore the bad, no, horrid grammer) it is an interesting tale.

[Kendra Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

My New Favorite Genre

Lincoln James is doing a brilliant job telling the inside story of the people on the front lines of the war against jihad. It's really hard to get ahead in a game where only one side plays by the rules.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the 2nd day in the series of a five day event. Must read all five to end the attack and find out who done it. The stories are tight, short, and too close to what's happening today in the U.S.A. for comfortable reading but the series is well crafted and written by A.D. Davies under the pseudonym Lincoln James. I've read all of the books written by Davies and recommend them wholeheartedly. As a result, Lincoln James writes with the same grit and determination making these five books a great deal. Miller and his team must find out who is running the terrorist cell causing the deaths of hundreds of civilians with no reason other than death and mayhem makes people feel unsafe. The terrorists want to instill fear in the American public. The TIER Unit is trying to get to the bottom of who is really in charge. The Mayor of Los Angeles seems compromised but is he? Perhaps we'll find out in Day Three.