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Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse |  | Author: James Wesley Rawles
Publisher: Ulysses Press
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Original
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 156975599X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781569755990
ASIN: 156975599X
Publication Date: April 7, 2009
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Product Description
America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse--the stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. 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. About James Wesley, Rawles Former U.S. Army intelligence officer and lifelong survivalist James Wesley, Rawles is a well-known survival lecturer and author. Rawles is the editor of SurvivalBlog.com--one of the nation's most popular sites on survivalism. He lives in an undisclosed location west of the Rockies.
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 Don't let the ridiculous cover sway you; this is a great book!!! July 30, 2010
R3a1 1if3
I enjoyed this book immensely. I am a newbie for sure and am learning the ways to minimize the risk involved in keeping my Family alive. This book was insightful and useful while also being fantastically entertaining. Thanks for this, Rawles.
However, I must add one critique. The cover... It almost kept me from reading the book and I KNOW it kept many others who would get a lot of use from this book from reading it. It is over the top in a major way. If you want to help wake people up to the reality of the desperate and extreme danger of unpreparedness, then the cover needs to go. Currently, the demographic that is drawn to the book (based on the cover) are exactly the ones that would probably BE SHOT in the book.
Great Book!
Buy it for what it is... July 30, 2010
Tracy A. Poole (Tennessee)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From what I can tell, this book wasn't written to be the next "Catcher in the Rye" or "Atlas Shrugged"...it was written to ingrain (sp?) a lot of very valuable information in a manner that would be more "digestible" than simply offering another "how to" book that sits on a shelf. The author does a good job of getting your mind into a situation that you can relate to, (one we narrowly avoided in '08), so that you can see how, why and where you would use certain skills,tactics and products. He'll also teach you how to obtain them. By the time you get to the end of the book, you've basically absorbed an entire survival course in such a way as to actually retain it.
The things that make this a good book are the very things that would make your h.s. lit teacher cringe. For example; the details...the author doesn't just write that "...Tom kept his hand on his sidearm as the stranger ____..." Rather, he will write; "...as the stranger walked by, Tom kept his hand on his Bersa 9mm that he had acquired just before "the crunch"...he remembered how he wasn't looking to spend the extra $350 at the time, but was glad that he found the deal at J&G Guns on the internet, and the money he saved went into the extra ammo he was already depending upon..." That kind of stuff.
You're paying for a course that's in a quasi entertaining format...not a great literary work. For this, I would HIGHLY recommend this book.
 Decent Story, Jr. High school grade writing skills July 28, 2010
R. Jones (Derby Kansas)
Yes there is a story here and thats the redeeming part. Plus the plans and execution give one some solid "how to" ideas for your own preps. The big downer here is the basic lack of writing skills. They really dumb down the book and give it an ackward, oafish quality that it was written by a Jr. High student with limited writing, imagination, and vocabulary skills.
So as long as you are reading it with low expectations of literary quality you will be fine. I'm not saying its not worth the read just that it is lacking in the level of quality that would make it a fine to excellant read.
Poorly written fiction, but interesting scenario July 27, 2010
Norman A. Garrett (Charleston, IL USA)
Like other reviewers, I saw the book as more survivalist literature than good fiction. The author's agenda and viewpoint is clear throughout and it intrudes on the story line. The way we find out what is happening is by lengthy narrative "recaps" by lesser characters. The main characters are not well-developed and the story goes in fits and spurts, with much detail about some event, followed by "6 months later ...". Some chapters are nothing more than handbooks (particularly the chapter on radio, which can be skipped without detriment to the story line). There is much religious overtone, with frequent quoting of scriptures, and the political viewpoint is made clear in the closing chapters on amendments. Overall, I found it a bit interesting, but containing far too much technical detail to flow well as a novel. The incessant mention of make/model for everything became tiresome. It's easy to see, however, why this is the fourth edition. Most novels don't go through re-writes for updating, but this one has to periodically to keep the latest technology (guns, radios, gas tanks, food storage supplies, etc.) up to date. That clearly demonstrates that the purpose of this book isn't the presentation of good fiction, but, rather, a handbook on survivalism cloaked in a fictional scenario.
 Shockingly Bad July 22, 2010
Jeff Swystun (Ottawa & New York)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Patriots is a series of lists held together by a tired premise, boring characters, and a weak plot. If you want a diatribe on poorly thought-out economics which causes the world to crash, checklists of paranoid survival gear and strategies, and a catalogue of firearms unnecessarily made available to the US public then this is the book for you. I will not even touch the contradictory and oversimplified politics. All of this could be overlooked if the story was at all engaging but it is not even campy - I had to force myself to finish it due to stubborness.
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