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Books in the Slingshot 8 series:
published - Slingshot 8 and Slingshot 8: The Old World
pending publication this fall - Slingshot 8: Colony
presently writing - Slingshot 8: ST Nation
Paperback and ebook versions available at -
https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B015J4PZU6
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/danny+creasy?_requestid=8039708
Paperback version only -
http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Slingshot/Danny-Creasy/9781634919319?id=7329810576292
Ebook version only from iBook and Kobo (search Danny Creasy)
Signed copies are available off the shelf from Coldwater Books in Tuscumbia, Alabama
Also by Danny Creasy:
Jim & Nancy: Two Paths Merged by War
SLINGSHOT 8: THE OLD WORLD
Lauderdale President Henry Wade Smith V won the War of Reunification in the Spared Territory’s 70th year. Year 72 finds “Harry” bored and antsy. Such is not the case for his lovely wife, Colbert President Catherine Ragland Smith; “Cate” thrives under the peaceful challenges of family and government.
Given the ST’s dwindling resources and pent up citizenry, Harry assembles a scientific team to explore The Old World. His optimistic goals of discovery, expansion, and prosperity are cast aside after a terrifying force strikes from beyond the Northern Wall.
True to form, Harry and Cate embrace the challenge. She assumes all administrative duties freeing him to alter his Old World team’s structure and mission.
Hurried personnel changes form a streamlined half-platoon of sixteen intrepid Lauderdale warriors tasked to pursue a fierce adversary in a primeval land. Leaving no doubt as to the changed nature of their mission, Harry reactivates a storied callsign for his troop. Slingshot 8 mounts up and rides north.
What threats await them among Tennessee’s burgeoning forests and decaying structures?
Slingshot 8
Seventy years after terrorists unleashed a weapons-grade virus on earth,a lone cluster of mankind survives in the Shoals Area of NW Alabama. Why? A U. S. Air Force C-130 carrying the only supply extant of the “Mad Flu” vaccine crash-landed at the Muscle Shoals Airport in Colbert County. Two draconian figures, Henry Wade Smith III and Charles Edward Ragland V, stepped up, and in the vacuum of governmental and military collapse, they cooperated to save the citizens of their two counties. Smith ruled Lauderdale County on the north side of the Tennessee River, and Ragland did the same in Colbert County to the south. They succeeded but not without costs. Democracy is gone. The Smith Ascendancy in Lauderdale and the Ragland Ascendancy in Colbert dictated the leaders since the apocalypse, and a falling-out between the two ruling families led to a series of devastating wars leaving the occupants of the “Spared Territory” divided and hate filled.
Early attempts to venture out in the “Old World” failed. Sheltered behind their walls, theLauderdales and Colberts compete for dwindling resources. Most recently, the two principalities are embroiled in a deadly dispute over control of Wilson Dam and its considerable yield of hydroelectric power. The Colberts have a larger population, deeper agriculture, a basic monetary system, and quite the industrial base. They feel entitled to a greater share of the dam’s output due to their economic progress and larger population. The Lauderdales are fewer in number, operate financially on a complicated barter system, and have a warrior mentality akin to ancient Sparta. The Colberts came up short in two prior invasions across the mighty river. Lauderdale strikes first this time; young Henry Wade Smith V (Harry) assumes the presidency after his father’s passing and takes Lauderdale to war the day of the state funeral. He commands from a painstakingly preserved Humvee designated Slingshot 8.