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Release Reminder and Excerpt

3/15/2016

 
Just in case you missed last week's email, or if you're just ramping up for summer and haven't had the time, Broken: Book 3 in the Daniel Briggs spinoff, is now available on Amazon. If you've read it and like it, please consider leaving a review. If you haven't purchased it yet, it's still discounted a bit at 3.99. Here's the link to purchase: ​ getbook.at/BrokenDanielBriggs
Thanks to everyone who did buy a copy. Your support keeps this train rolling :)
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As an added bonus I'm including the completely raw and unedited chapter of The Patriot Protocol, which should be live next month. Enjoy!
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(CAUTION: The following contains unedited material that may be unsuitable for the grammatically inclined.) 
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The Tennessee Zone
Year 2057



I shot the first one in the face. I didn’t mean to. It wasn’t how I’d been trained. Center mass. Always center mass. It gives you the greatest chance of hitting your target, the head the smallest. 

So when the first bullet exploded out of back of the intruder’s head, I adjusted my aim and shot him twice in the chest. Probably didn’t need to, but it was habit. 

The dead’s man’s accomplice, all arms the size of tree trunks and belly like a barrel, raised his rifle to shoot. I felt the bullet whiz by my head. It was that close, like a bumble bee doing a fly by. 

My first shot didn’t miss, and neither did my second. He took the rounds in the chest with wide eyes, like he was thinking, “How the hell did I just get shot?” 

Really? How could he think that? He came into my house, where I try and keep my wife and three kids safe, and he has the balls to think, no assume, that he might not get shot? I shot him again, the old anger palpable now. It tasted like iron nails in my mouth, the sedentary me gone for the briefest moment.

I watched the second intruder squirm for a moment, my pistol always aimed should he be stupid enough to raise his weapon at me or my family again. The movement in front of me stopped. 

One. Two. Three. Four. Five. I counted deliberately, another old habit.

My breathing slowed, the adrenaline sap leaving me a couple levels drained. 

That’s when I remembered they were there, my two oldest. It had been my daughter’s scream that brought me running, and now when I turned to face them, she stared at me with blank eyes, shock pure and simple. I wanted to run to her and hold her beautiful face against my chest, but I decided to give her a moment. This was a new reality, much worse than before, and in my mind I knew that she would come to deal with it in her own way. My sweet child, the innocent one who took offense at even the most childish slight. Most days she was nine going on nineteen, but now she looked ever bit her age. 

Then there was my son, all boy at almost seven years of age. He clung to his sister, not because he needed to, but because he somehow sensed that she did. He stared at me with a mixture of awe and trepidation, like he wanted to ask me what I was thinking or what I was feeling. He was always asking that sort of thing. Funny really. I called him my little professor. 

Now they came to me, tentatively at first, and then running. My daughter didn’t let go of my neck, and my son stroked my back, as if I was the one needing consoling.

I smiled despite the dead a couple feet away. We were safe for the moment, and I inhaled them like the first time, when I’d marveled at their tiny toes and fingers in the delivery room. How I wished I could go back to that world, when safety was a given, and nights weren’t spent with a gun at my side, listening to the light snores of the children sleeping a few feet away. 
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But those days were gone, swept away by the violence that now threatened to envelop us again. I kiss my children on the head, lightly, like they might break. If I could only keep them alive for another day. 
Rick B
3/17/2016 11:55:11 am

Looks like a very interesting addition to the SHTF genera. Can't wait!

Mark Tiras link
4/18/2016 03:33:09 pm

Read all your Briggs & Corp Justice. All GREAT reading. When to Briggs & the Corp Justice group meet?? I think better to have read the Corp books first to have a better understanding of what type of person Briggs is. My biggest request is to write your books faster. Ready for the next one...

Jim M
5/3/2016 05:48:11 am

Review of Patriot Protocol.

A nice introduction to a new series of characters set in the future without all the zombies. An interesting take on post apocalyptic life but with the underlying values of Corps Justice and personal values and the turmoil between family. It will be interesting to see where this one goes.


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