The Spare Parts Club

The EMP killed the power. The invasion is coming to finish the job. Nobody warned the enemy about the amputee support group.

On Christmas Day the lights go out across America—and within hours Chinese paratroopers are dropping onto the interstate. Six busted-up combat veterans, one emo kid with a Ka-Bar, and a celebrity veteran influencer named Trigger (who would very much like to be excused from the apocalypse) pile into the last running car in South Carolina and head for the countryside.

Stripper lost his legs in Afghanistan. Stumpy traded his hands for hooks. Loredo is down an arm. Sloth wears his burn scars like armor. Pimpwalk earned his nickname the hard way. The world wrote them off as broken long before the bombs fell. But when World War III lands on American soil, the skills nobody wanted become the only thing standing between a sleepy Southern town and the opening act of occupation. The invaders are the least of their problems. An Iranian Revolutionary Guard kill team is hunting the Club to settle an old score—and it doesn’t care how many small towns burn along the way.

Set in the world of Mark Sibley’s bestselling Mongol Moon, The Spare Parts Club is a full-throttle novel of EMP survival, small-town resistance, and profoundly questionable nicknames. It is a post-apocalyptic war story with a body count and a sense of humor where the fate of the republic rests on a veteran motorcycle club, a homemade kill-dozer, and a support group that refuses to stay in pieces.

For readers of Mongol Moon, Forgotten Ruin, and anyone who believes the end of the world deserves a punchline: the Club is now in session. Get in. Get mad. Get Triggered.

Brett Allen is a former U.S. Army Cavalry Officer who deployed to eastern Afghanistan in 2009 with 3rd Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division. The experience armed him with the tactical fluency, dark humor, and eye for military absurdity that define his fiction.

His debut novel, Kilroy Was Here, turned that deployment into biting military satire and earned him a devoted readership among veterans and civilians alike, drawing comparisons to the workplace-comedy-at-war tradition of Catch-22 and M*A*S*H. Allen's short fiction earned the 2022 Colonel Darron L. Wright Award from the Line of Advance literary journal.

Allen lives in Ada, Michigan, with his wife, two kids, and his dog, Gatsby.