Liberators: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: James Wesley Rawles ID: B00OKYR866
When looting and rioting overwhelm all the major US cities, Afghanistan War vet Ray McGregor makes his way from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to his parents’ cattle ranch in Bella Coola, British Columbia, in remote western Canada. Joining him is his old friend Phil Adams, a Defense Intelligence Agency counterintelligence case officer based in Washington State. Reckless banking practices, hyperinflation, and government negligence have led to an unprecedented socioeconomic collapse in America that quickly spreads throughout the world. Lightly populated Bella Coola is spared the worst of the chaos, but when order is restored it comes in the form of a tyrannical army of occupation. Ray and Phil soon become key players in the resistance movement, fighting the occupiers in a war that will determine not only their own personal survival, but also the future of North America. Liberators depicts a world that is all too conceivable and terrifyingly familiar. Fast-paced and packed with authentic information on outdoor survival, self-sufficiency, and small-unit tactics, James Wesley, Rawles’s latest thriller will resonate with his dedicated fanbase and encourage new readers to prepare for anything from lesser disasters to the dreaded worst-case scenario.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 12 hours and 37 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Brilliance AudioAudible.com Release Date: October 21, 2014Language: EnglishID: B00OKYR866 Best Sellers Rank: #762 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Fiction & Literature > Action & Adventure #824 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Dystopian #1224 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > War & Military
I have read every book by Rawles except Expatriots. My favorite is How to Survive The End of the World As We know It. So I had high expectations when Liberators was released and bought it right away. I am 75% of the way through the book and I cannot take it any longer. I am going to return it for my money back. Liberators is by far the worst book by Rawles I have read.
What little plot there is skips around from year to year, location to location, group to group, and is hard to follow. Rawles previous books were How To Manuals written in novel form. And for the most part were readable and entertaining. Liberators is written similarly but just stinks. If you are looking to be entertained, this book is not it.
I am totally uninterested in how to run a covert intelligence gathering unit to the n-th detail. Or how to repair a spline for the shaft couplings on a large generator that 99.999% of the population has never even seen. Just like every other book by Rawles there is a constant proselytizing, but this book has much, much more. I have nothing against Christians, or someone who wants to pray before everything they do, but it really makes the book read like a Sunday school story. You can have good Christian characters without the constant barrage of proselytizing.
Parts of the book were just totally unbelievable. For example, a group of 5 of our heroes, including 2 young children (age 6 or 8, they don’t say), are heading west to Kentucky by jeep. Upon hitting the Kentucky line they abandon their jeep because the Kentucky governor isn’t letting cars in but they are allowed to walk in with all their possessions including their guns. Huh? Wait, then it gets really good.
I’ve read and enjoyed two of James Wesley, Rawles’ other books in this series. Thus I looked forward to the latest, Liberators. It’s the story of two groups of protagonists trying to survive through the occupation of the United States and Canada by foreign forces, following "the Crunch," when most of the worlds’ economies and governments have collapsed, with ensuing civil disorder, scarcity of food and fuel, and governments in disarray. There are several books in the series, all taking place during the same years, but with different characters in different parts of the world. Liberators is certainly engaging. Note: It is not at all necessary to have read the other books in this series in order to enjoy this one.
All of the books in the series can be classified as "prepper" novels in that besides providing you with a possible futuristic history, they also offer advice (via the characters’ actions) on how to prepare for an emergency, and the breakdown of government — be it at the local or national level.
I’ve rated the book slightly lower than previous ones for a few reasons. First, there seems to be more exposition rather than plot actions in contrast to previous works in the series. Fiction is best when it is of the "show, don’t tell" modal.
Secondly, the occupation of Canada, first by European U.N. forces is believable enough. However, once they are "sent packing" as it were, the occupation by China is a bit more far-fetched. I can’t see a country with little oil production of its own being able to transport so many troops and ships/planes or helicopters/ground vehicles overseas.
In terms of the protagonists themselves, things seem to come too easily for them.
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