Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse

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Ulysses Press, Apr 7, 2009 - Fiction - 400 pages
America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse—the stock market plummets, commerce is crippled and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point—in this thrilling novel with more than 250,000 copies in print.

Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and looting grip every major city.

As hordes of refugees and looters pour out of the cities, a small group of friends living in the Midwest desperately tries to make their way to a safe-haven ranch in northern Idaho. The journey requires all their skill and training since communication, commerce, transportation and law enforcement have all disappeared. Once at the ranch, the group fends off vicious attacks from outsiders and then looks to join other groups that are trying to restore true Constitutional law to the country.

Patriots is a thrilling narrative depicting fictional characters using authentic survivalist techniques to endure the collapse of the American civilization. Reading this compelling, fast-paced novel could one day mean the difference between life and death.

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
16
Section 3
25
Section 4
43
Section 5
52
Section 6
67
Section 7
85
Section 8
97
Section 19
238
Section 20
249
Section 21
256
Section 22
270
Section 23
277
Section 24
289
Section 25
299
Section 26
314

Section 9
114
Section 10
136
Section 11
149
Section 12
164
Section 13
176
Section 14
188
Section 15
199
Section 16
209
Section 17
219
Section 18
227
Section 27
324
Section 28
336
Section 29
345
Section 30
356
Section 31
369
Section 32
379
Section 33
386
Section 34
388
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James Wesley Rawles was born in Livermore, California in 1960. He received a BA degree from San Jose State University. He served in the U. S. Army as an intelligence officer from 1984 to 1993. He worked as an associate editor and regional editor with Defense Electronics magazine and was the managing editor of The International Countermeasures Handbook. He also worked as a technical writer through most of the 1990s with a variety of electronics and software companies. In 2005, he began full-time blogging and is the editor of SurvivalBlog.com. He has written several books including How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse, Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse, Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse and Liberators: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse.