Author(s): James Wesley Rawles

General Fiction

Already a cult success in the US after publication, reaching the top 40 on Amazon, "Patriots" is a thrilling novel of survival set in a not-too-distant future breakdown of civilization. "Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse" is a thinking man's action-adventure novel set in the near future, as America is torn by a full scale socio-economic collapse. Todd Gray, an accountant, and his wife Mary, a nurse, live on a ranch in northern Idaho that was established several years before, as a safe haven for a select group of friends, most of whom live in Chicago. When the stock market collapses and hyperinflation sets in, civilization falls apart practically overnight. Wholesale rioting and looting grip every major city. Communication, commerce, transportation, and law enforcement disappear. Hordes of refugees and looters pour out of the cities and into the countryside. It's the end of the world as we know it. With communications down nationwide, Todd and Mary have no way of knowing if many of their friends or relatives are dead or alive. The novel is a highly unusual blend of fiction and fact. While an exciting read, it is essentially a survival manual dressed as fiction.