Book Review
Patriots By James Wesley, Rawles

Huntington House Publishing ISBN number,1-56384-155-X

NOTE, this book has now been published as Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse and is avialable at bookstores and through Amazon.com. (The authour asks that you buy it from your local bookstore to create a groundswell of orders.)

TEOTWAWKI, by James Wesley, Rawles, kept me up nights while I was reading it and promises to keep me up a few more. First, it was such a good read, it was difficult to put down and turn off the light. Now that I am done, I sit there in the dark realizing just how far from completed my personal survival preparations are. Now I make lists and brainstorm in the twilight before sleep reaches out for me.

I found Patriots eye-opening in some areas -- particularly the political and legal aspects -- and very informative in others. While I do not agree with all the scenarios, I realize the author had to exaggerate some items to make the novel more interesting. All-in-all, I think Patriots is a must-read for any survivalist.

Let's face it: I read many survivalist books. I read how-to books and guides on everything from brain-tanning to foraging. I read military field manuals and guides on herbs. I read survival and post-apocalyptic fiction. I visit other survival-related web sites and I read just about every post here on the Survival Talk bulletin board. I learn a great deal from these sources, and I write down the ideas I garner and adjust my survival plans accordingly.

But Patriots made me question and adjust my plan more than anything I have read since I got seriously into survival -- a personal paradigm shift that occurred after reading a copy of Cresson H. Kearny's Nuclear War Survival Skills I borrowed from our midwife. If there is anyone you think should consider survivalism a bit more seriously, give them a copy of this book.

Net Beginnings

Originally published on the Internet as a shareware book under the title The Gray Nineties, the book was updated and distributed electronically as Triple Ought. Patriots is further expanded and enhanced from the version now on-line. According to Rawles, the following chapters are either new or updated in the print version: 1, 5, 6, 9, 23 - 33.