Missions from the Extinction Cycle, Vol. 1

Nicholas Sansbury Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series, the Orbs series, the Trackers series, the Extinction Cycle series, the Sons of War series, and the new E-Day series. He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster mitigation before switching careers to focus on storytelling. When he isn’t writing or daydreaming about the apocalypse, he enjoys running, biking, spending time with his family, and traveling the world. He is an Ironman triathlete and lives in Iowa with his wife, daughter, and their dogs. 

Jeff Olah is the author and creator of the bestselling series the Dead Years, the Last Outbreak, and the Next World. He writes post-apocalyptic, supernatural horror, and dystopian/science fiction. He lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and seven-year-old Chihuahua.

Mark Tufo was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he received his BA. He later joined the United States Marine Corp, where he was stationed in California, Hawaii, and South Carolina. After his tour he went into the human resources field and has gone back to college to complete his master’s degree. He has written the Indian Hill trilogy and many other novels, including the Zombie Fallout series. He lives in Maine with his wife, three kids, and two English bulldogs.

Rachel Aukes is the award-winning author of 100 Days in Deadland, which made the Best of the Year list by Suspense Magazine. Her other series include the Fringe series, the Deadland Saga, and the Colliding Worlds trilogy. A licensed pilot, she can be found flying old airplanes over the Midwest countryside with her husband and an incredibly spoiled, fifty-pound lapdog. She lives near Ames, Iowa.

Anthony J. Melchiorri is a scientist with a PhD in bioengineering. By day, he develops cellular therapies and 3D-printable artificial organs. By night, he writes apocalyptic, medical, and science fiction thrillers that blend real-world research with other-worldly possibility. When he isn’t in the lab or at the keyboard, he spends his time running, reading, hiking, and traveling in search of new story ideas.

Russell Blake is the author of twenty-nine acclaimed thrillers, including the Assassin and JET series. He lives on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.