James Rawles - Liberators

Last, but far from least, my sincere thanks to my editor at Dutton, Jessica Renheim, for her amazing skill in making my scribbling seem coherent.

Former U.S. Army Intelligence officer and survivalist James Wesley, Rawlesis a well-known survival lecturer and author. Rawles is the editor of SurvivalBlog.com—the nation’s most popular blog on family preparedness. He lives in an undisclosed location west of the Rockies and is the New York Times bestselling author of Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse ; Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse; Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse ; Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse ; and a nonfiction survival guide, How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It.

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Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse

How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It

Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse

Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse

Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse

Copyright © 2014 by James Wesley, Rawles

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Rawles, James Wesley.

Liberators : a novel of the coming global collapse / James Wesley, Rawles.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-698-16145-0

1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Financial crises—Fiction. 3. Suspense fiction. 4. Dystopian fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.A8437L53 2014

813'.54—dc23

2014020037

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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