A Science Fiction 2023 AUDIE AWARDS® Nominee
Finding work is easy. Staying alive is a little bit harder.
When Russ Wesley finds an unusual artifact in his grandfather’s collection of rare antiquities, the last thing he expects is for it to draw the attention of a ferocious alien from a distant planet. Equally surprising is the adventurous team of intergalactic exterminators dispatched to deal with the alien threat. They’re a little wild, and a little reckless. Worse yet, they’re so impressed with Russ’s marksmanship that they insist he join their squad . . . whether he wants to or not.
Ash Bishop has been a high school English teacher, worked in the video game industry, and in educational app development. He even used to fetch coffee for Quentin Tarantino during the production of the film Jackie Brown. Many years ago, he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. He currently works in veteran services, assisting members of the military transition into the civilian workforce but spends his best days at home in Southern California with his wife and two wonderful children.
Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.
Suzanne Elise Freeman is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator.