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Core Books

Extinction Aftermath

Extinction Aftermath explores the world after the first apparent victory.

Extinction Age

Extinction Age pushes the series into full military collapse and desperation.

Extinction Edge

Extinction Edge widens the disaster from the initial outbreak to the first organized war for survival.

Extinction End

Extinction End brings the first major arc of the war to a brutal climax.

Extinction Evolution

Extinction Evolution shifts attention to the Variant Hunters and the larger military effort to study and fight the enemy as it changes.

Extinction Horizon

Extinction Horizon begins the main Extinction Cycle story by turning a secret military-science project into a global extinction event.

Extinction Lost

Extinction Lost is a Team Ghost short story set between Extinction Aftermath and Extinction War.

Extinction Red Line

Extinction Red Line is the official prequel to the main Extinction Cycle saga.

Extinction War

Extinction War closes the original seven-book saga by shifting from Variant war to a combined threat of infected resurgence, political violence, and human extremism.

Missions from the Extinction Cycle Volume 1

Missions from the Extinction Cycle Volume 1 is an anthology connector rather than an in-world faction.

Missions from the Extinction Cycle Volume 2

Missions from the Extinction Cycle Volume 2 continues the anthology function with stories that read like dispatches from the edges of the main war - new outposts, new survivors.

Key Characters

Alex Riley

Staff Sergeant Alex "Kid" Riley is the youngest-brother figure in the original Team Ghost roster and one of the emotional anchors of the first season.

Joe Fitzpatrick

Master Sergeant Joe "Fitz" Fitzpatrick is the soldier who carries Team Ghost forward after Reed Beckham's body and life are permanently changed by the war.

Jose Garcia

Marine Staff Sergeant Jose Garcia is the leader of the Variant Hunters, the Marine Force Recon team that gives the main series one of its most important ground-level views.

Kate Lovato

Dr. Kate Lovato, later Kate Lovato Beckham, is the scientific heart of the Extinction Cycle universe. Reed Beckham fights the monsters with rifles, teams, and impossible.

Meg Pratt

Meg Pratt is the most important civilian survivor introduced through New York and the central bridge between the main Extinction Cycle and The Redemption Trilogy.

Parker Horn

Master Sergeant Parker "Big Horn" Horn is Reed Beckham's closest brother-in-arms and one of the emotional pillars of Team Ghost.

President Jan Ringgold

Jan Ringgold is the political and moral center of the later Extinction Cycle.

Reed Beckham

Reed Beckham is the central soldier-hero of the main Extinction Cycle and one of the most important public figures of the later Allied States era.

Trevor Brett

Lieutenant Trevor Brett is the first human face of VX-99 and the earliest living warning that the program will end in monsters.