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Slingshot 8
Seventy years after terrorists unleashed a weapons-grade virus on the world, 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 became the benevolent dictator of 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. A falling-out between the ruling families led to two devastating wars leaving the occupants of the "Spared Territory" divided and hate filled. Always competing for resources, the two principalities have reached another breaking point. President Henry Wade Smith V is taking them to war for the third time from his seat in a painstakingly preserved Humvee, designated Slingshot 8...
292 pages, Paperback
Published November 20, 2016
About the author
Danny Creasy
6 books2 followersBackground
Danny Creasy is a former community banker (thirty-eight year career) and lifetime resident of Florence, Alabama. He holds a BS in economics and history from the University of North Alabama (1979), an MBA from the same institution (1989), and graduated from the United States Air Force's Officer Training School in 1982. He retired from banking in 2014 to pursue his dream of becoming a successful author.
His writing ventures
After his short story, White Flour, was published in the Savannah Anthology 2015, Danny was inspired to self-publish his work of creative non-fiction, Jim & Nancy: Two Paths Merged by War. His next books, Slingshot 8, Slingshot 8: The Old World, and Slingshot 8: Colony, are works of fiction. Combined, he has sold just over a thousand copies of these four books. His goal is to complete at least four novels in the Spared Territory Series; Danny is ten thousand words in on Book Four, Slingshot 8: ST Nation.
His style
Danny’s impassioned writing springs from a unique imagination and the haunts of his beloved South. His intriguing characters weather violence to find romance in troubled settings, both historical and fictional.
Danny Creasy is a former community banker (thirty-eight year career) and lifetime resident of Florence, Alabama. He holds a BS in economics and history from the University of North Alabama (1979), an MBA from the same institution (1989), and graduated from the United States Air Force's Officer Training School in 1982. He retired from banking in 2014 to pursue his dream of becoming a successful author.
His writing ventures
After his short story, White Flour, was published in the Savannah Anthology 2015, Danny was inspired to self-publish his work of creative non-fiction, Jim & Nancy: Two Paths Merged by War. His next books, Slingshot 8, Slingshot 8: The Old World, and Slingshot 8: Colony, are works of fiction. Combined, he has sold just over a thousand copies of these four books. His goal is to complete at least four novels in the Spared Territory Series; Danny is ten thousand words in on Book Four, Slingshot 8: ST Nation.
His style
Danny’s impassioned writing springs from a unique imagination and the haunts of his beloved South. His intriguing characters weather violence to find romance in troubled settings, both historical and fictional.
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April 23, 2018
Well written, starts right in without a lot of build up. I really enjoyed it. Read it in just 2 days
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