Jack of Spades: Silver Spades book 1

By Rick Bonogofsky

When the world fell asleep, only the ruthless woke up early.
Six months after a solar storm burned the sky and erased the grid, most of humanity lay trapped in a coma. The ones who woke first carved up the ruins of society - some as protectors, most as predators.
Jack had no purpose before the world ended. Now, after opening his eyes to the wreckage, he's found himself under the thumb of a crumbling militia holed up in a failing high school. The leadership is corrupt. The refugees inside are broken. And the gates are all that stand between them and the chaos outside.
When Jack is branded with a silver spade and cast out of the militia's ranks, he claims the insult as his own. Gathering a small troupe of outcasts, he begins rebuilding the compound from the inside out - one room, one wall, one broken life at a time. But in a world where food is scarce, weapons are currency, and survival is a daily battle, the enemies at the gates are never far away.
Now, Jack will have to lead - not because he wants to, but because no one else will. And the decisions he makes will determine whether the people he's fought to protect live long enough to see another sunrise.
The world ended while it slept. What happens next is up to the ones who wake.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FMS1WBWM
• ISBN13: 9798298595186
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"