# Mongol Moon > A connected World War III thriller universe spanning the central invasion narrative, anthology stories, standalone fronts, authors, characters and entities, locations, and a cross-linked conflict timeline. Canonical site: https://mongolmoon.com/ Primary XML sitemap: https://mongolmoon.com/wp-sitemap.xml Expanded inventory: https://mongolmoon.com/llms-full.txt ## Core navigation - [Start Here](https://mongolmoon.com/start-here/): Reading route for the main series and wider universe. - [Books](https://mongolmoon.com/books/): Main series, anthologies, and connected novels. - [Stories](https://mongolmoon.com/stories/): Anthology stories and short fiction. - [Characters & Entities](https://mongolmoon.com/characters/): People, military units, resistance organizations, vehicles, and other recurring assets. - [Timeline](https://mongolmoon.com/timeline/): Searchable fictional conflict chronology. - [Intel Map](https://mongolmoon.com/map/): Geospatial view of the fictional conflict. - [Authors](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/): Public author dossiers. - [Intel Briefings](https://mongolmoon.com/briefings/): Public author notes, deleted material, research, alternate drafts, and continuity context. - [About](https://mongolmoon.com/about/): Universe premise, reading architecture, continuity model, and canon/discovery guidance. ## Interpretation notes - The site describes a fictional World War III thriller universe. - Published canon, public previews/forthcoming material, and author commentary are distinguished rather than silently merged. - Intel Briefings may contain production notes, deleted material, alternate drafts, or possible/future ideas; their displayed canon/status labels matter. - Timeline records are fictional continuity records and should not be interpreted as descriptions of real-world events. - The Author Portal, revision proposals, feedback threads, sign-in activity, administrator tools, and hidden-reader infrastructure are private and intentionally excluded from public discovery. ## Books - [Mongol Moon](https://mongolmoon.com/books/mongol-moon/): World War III began years ago. America only notices when the lights go out. - [A Dance of Devils](https://mongolmoon.com/books/a-dance-of-devils/): The grid is down. The hidden army is no longer hidden. Now the invasion comes ashore. - [Raise the Red](https://mongolmoon.com/books/raise-the-red/): The occupation is real. The next question is whether America endures or rises. - [Apocalypse in Pieces](https://mongolmoon.com/books/apocalypse-in-pieces/): The lights went out everywhere. These are the pieces the main novels cannot show. - [Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2](https://mongolmoon.com/books/apocalypse-in-pieces-vol-2/): More fronts. More missing hours. More people discovering the war at ground level. - [Blood Memory](https://mongolmoon.com/books/blood-memory/): When Zambia goes dark, Major Alex Frey has 1,400 miles of Africa between his people and safety. - [Spine of the Hindu Kush](https://mongolmoon.com/books/spine-of-the-hindu-kush/): An unofficial American program tries to break the enemy alliance before open war becomes inevitable. - [Dances with Arrows](https://mongolmoon.com/books/dances-with-arrows/): Occupied Wyoming becomes a resistance front across the plains, missile fields, and the streets of Cheyenne. - [Kill Game](https://mongolmoon.com/books/kill-game/): Reno is occupied. The casino becomes headquarters. The Sons of Carson decide whether to fold or fight. - [The Spare Parts Club](https://mongolmoon.com/books/the-spare-parts-club/): The world wrote them off before the bombs fell. South Carolina gets a veteran support group the invaders did not plan for. ## Stories - [Black Alice](https://mongolmoon.com/stories/black-alice/): Independence Day is a celebration. It is also a predictable day for an adversary to exploit. - [Remember the Drift](https://mongolmoon.com/stories/remember-the-drift/): Eastern South Africa faces a modern defensive stand. - [Battle of Diego Garcia](https://mongolmoon.com/stories/battle-of-diego-garcia/): A strategic island becomes one of the war's critical early fights. - [Irene](https://mongolmoon.com/stories/irene/): A Mongol Moon short story tied to the wider military response and Book Three backstory. - [Catastrophic Success](https://mongolmoon.com/stories/catastrophic-success/): One of the anthology bridges leading toward Raise the Red. - [Gone Native](https://mongolmoon.com/stories/gone-native/): The Wyoming thread before Dances with Arrows. ## Authors - [Alex Aaronson](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/alex-aaronson/): Alex Aaronson is a former U.S. Navy Cryptologic Technician Interpretive who studied international relations before earning a law degree. He writes military and alternate-history thrillers and contributes to... - [Blaine L. Pardoe](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/blaine-l-pardoe/): Blaine L. Pardoe is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author whose work spans military history, true crime, science fiction, paranormal nonfiction, and management. He is also known for extensive... - [Bradley R. Mitzelfelt](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/bradley-r-mitzelfelt/): Bradley R. Mitzelfelt writes fantasy and science fiction and has published across Weird West, dark fantasy, and speculative-fiction anthologies. He contributes to Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2, adding anoth... - [Brett Allen](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/brett-allen/): Brett Allen is a former U.S. Army Cavalry Officer who deployed to eastern Afghanistan in 2009 with 3rd Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division. His fiction draws on tactical experience, milit... - [Danielle Cashat](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/danielle-cashat/): Danielle Cashat is the author of The Gray and the Death & Destruction series and a contributing author to Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2, where her work joins the anthology's wider view of the Mongol Moon war. - [David Walcher](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/david-walcher/): David Walcher is a contributing author to Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2, adding another front to the Mongol Moon global-war mosaic. - [Doc Spears](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/doc-spears/): Doc Spears served on a U.S. Army Special Forces A-Team before becoming an orthopedic spine surgeon and working in the defense industry. His background also includes advanced firearms and tactical training. H... - [Don Shift](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/don-shift/): Don Shift is a veteran of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office and the author of preparedness, disaster, history, current-events, and post-apocalyptic work. He contributes to Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2. - [Jim Kiernan](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/jim-kiernan/): Jim Kiernan is a contributing author to Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2, adding another front to the Mongol Moon global-war mosaic. - [Joe Dolio](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/joe-dolio/): Joe Dolio is a U.S. Marine veteran whose professional background includes close protection, security augmentation, corporate investigations, and training in personal protection and mountain warfare. He contr... - [Joel Gaines](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/joel-gaines/): Joel Gaines writes science fiction and geopolitical thrillers. His background includes U.S. Army communications and Russian-area intelligence work during the Cold War and service during the Persian Gulf War.... - [Lafayette Lee](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/lafayette-lee/): Lafayette Lee is a contributing author to Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2, adding another front to the Mongol Moon global-war mosaic. - [Mark Sibley](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/mark-sibley/): Mark Sibley is a corporate crisis manager and war gamer. He has developed and facilitated more than one hundred war games and managed real-world organizational crises, experience that directly informed Mongo... - [Mike Bennett](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/mike-bennett/): Mike Bennett is the author of Spine of the Hindu Kush, the Warlock-centered parallel thriller in the Mongol Moon universe. The novel follows an anonymous covert program using economic disruption, deception,... - [Molly Miller](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/molly-miller/): Molly Miller is the author of Kill Game, the Mongol Moon novella that turns Reno into an occupied strategic corridor and follows the local Sons of Carson insurgency against Chinese forces headquartered in th... - [Peter Nealen](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/peter-nealen/): Peter Nealen is a former Recon Marine with Iraq deployments and experience in Force Reconnaissance, combat diving, military parachuting, scout-sniper work, and combat tracking. He later worked as a tactical... - [Philip Voodoo](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/philip-voodoo/): Philip Voodoo is the author of Blood Memory and a contributor to the Apocalypse in Pieces anthologies. Blood Memory expands the Mongol Moon war into southern and central Africa through Major Alex Frey and a... - [Ryan Williamson](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/ryan-williamson/): Ryan Williamson is a contributing author to Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2, adding another front to the Mongol Moon global-war mosaic. - [Ryan Young](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/ryan-young/): Ryan Young is a contributing author to Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2, adding another front to the Mongol Moon global-war mosaic. - [Shirley Johnson](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/shirley-johnson/): Shirley Johnson is a contributing author to Apocalypse in Pieces, expanding the Mongol Moon conflict beyond the main-series viewpoints. - [Steve Stratton](https://mongolmoon.com/authors/steve-stratton/): Steve Stratton brings a career spanning presidential communications, protective service, U.S. Army Special Forces, defense contracting, and technology storytelling to the Mongol Moon universe. He began at th... ## Additional structured indexes - [Characters & Entities](https://mongolmoon.com/characters/): Public dossiers for people, units, organizations, vehicles, and other assets. - [Locations and map](https://mongolmoon.com/map/): Public location dossiers are linked from the intelligence map. - [Timeline](https://mongolmoon.com/timeline/): Full chronology of published public timeline records. - [Expanded public record inventory](https://mongolmoon.com/llms-full.txt): Machine-readable link list for the complete public universe.