An action packed blockbuster. Red Dawn meets 1984 in this series about survival, totalitarian regimes, and war. The first book in the series THIRTEEN focuses on the invasion and Jack's reaction to it. Jack wants to hang out with his friends but his mom's rules keep him grounded until they wake up to machine gun fire and everything has changed. Foreign soldiers have invaded his hometown cutting off power, shutting down communications, and restricting travel. To make matters worse, he doesn't know if his dad is alive, wounded, captured, or dead. He wants to find him, however, his mother doesn't care, the soldiers are in his way, and the cop who busted him is no help at all.