JUSTIN SLOAN wrote video games before becoming a full-time author, with credits on such games as Game of Thrones, Tales from the Borderlands, Walking Dead, and Marvel and mobile games. Now you can find his military science fiction and space superheroes books on Amazon, KU, and Audible.com. He taught Muay Thai kickboxing and Marine Corps Martial Arts, and can play three songs on the bagpipes. Justin holds advanced degrees in international relations/economics and creative writing. Oh, and he acted in movies for a bit - all small roles though.
"Five, four, three ... Zero" A very short introduction to the Syndicate Wars series, in which we meet Quinn's remarkable little daughter and Mackie, the next door neighbour back home in Shiloh on the day the invasion begins. Brief but packed with interest and incident, visual and funny. Sammy is very much her mother's daughter. Brilliant.
It was a short story only designed to introduce 2 characters - Mackie (almost ready to join the Resistance) and Samantha (12yo neighbour, her mother's in the marines). The apartment block gets hit and the group needs to get to safety.