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About the Book

Just days after Ryan Sage learns his sister Tess is in a ward for the criminally insane, his home is destroyed by fire and he learns a federal warrant has been issued in his name. But there is no time to dwell on it; he’s stranded in Pittsburgh as it collapses in chaos.

Ryan’s singular goal is survival, that and the safety of a young girl in a pink coat fending for herself. A glimmer of hope comes in a message . . .

 SAFETY! Offer expires today at 12:15. Come ALONE!

He sprints through the chaos with a raging mob behind him. He is certain to make a choice: stay and save the girl or save himself.   

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"It offered a surprising mix of intellectual/political issues with the zombie apocalypse and made for a great story! The author is brilliant!"

  

Who is J. Lorin?

He’s just a guy who loves to write fiction and poke tyranny in the eye with the mighty pen. Besides, it doesn’t really matter who he is if the story is good, right?

Okay, maybe that isn’t satisfying. What else can be said to round out the picture?

He’s old enough that it matters, though not quite a boomer and not quite a Gen Xer, which means he’s not sure with whom to identify.

Though his pronouns are he/him and will also answer to Your Majesty and Lord Lorin.

>snicker<

 Ahem …

Back to the story … In college, he tired of watching television because he was sure he could tell better stories than the mindless drivel rendered on a seventeen-inch black-and-white TV. So, he fired up his 5 MHz computer with amber screen, hovered his fingers over the keyboard, ready to bang out his literary version of Mozart, and … nothing.  

It took some time for him to turn nothing into something because a lot of life happened between then and now—short story submissions and rejections, novel submissions and rejections, career paths, entrepreneurial endeavors, etc., etc. But in the late 2000s he returned to writing about ideas, because ideas drive human action, and that includes tyranny.

Riveting!

Spoiler alert: J. Lorin doesn’t write cozy beach reads.

But he does write very thoughtful fantasy and sci-fi thrillers. And, Dear Reader, here is the bonus. You can read them on the beach too. 

See, he’s very helpful.

So, who is J. Lorin?

He’s a man with a deep ornery streak who loves to write fiction that is food for the mind and poking tyranny in the eye with the mighty pen.

 ~ J. Lorin