James Rawles - Expatriates

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Jacob “Jake” Altmiller—Hardware store owner/manager in Tavares, Florida.

Janelle Altmiller—Real estate agent. Wife of Jacob Altmiller. Daughter of Alan and Claire McGregor. Sister of Rhiannon Jeffords.

Lance Alan Altmiller—Son of Jacob and Janelle Altmiller. Eleven years old at the onset of the Crunch.

Captain Soekirnan Assegaf—Captain (“Kapten”) of the Indonesian Navy patrol boat Sadarin .

Sam Burnu—Aborigine ex-convict groundskeeper, Marrakai Heights, Northern Territory, Australia.

Caleb Burroughs—Australian Army WO1 warrant officer.

Randall “Rabbit” Burroughs—Oil and gas seismic crew member. Brother of Caleb Burroughs.

Bruce Drake—Oil and gas seismic crew member.

Thomas Drake—Retired farm foreman. Paternal uncle of Bruce Drake.

Alvis Edwards—Salt and hide broker, Wyndham, Western Australia.

Vivian Edwards—Wife of Alvis Edwards.

Edward Hadley—Private pilot, Alice Springs, Australia.

Paula Hadley—Private pilot, Alice Springs, Australia. Wife of Edward Hadley.

Peter Jeffords—Christian missionary from New Hampshire, living in Quinapondan, Samar Island, Philippines.

Rhiannon Jeffords—Christian missionary, originally from Bella Coola, British Columbia. Wife of Peter Jeffords. Daughter of Alan and Claire McGregor. Sister of Janelle Altmiller.

Sarah Jeffords—Daughter of Peter and Rhiannon Jeffords. Seven years old at the onset of the Crunch.

Lyle Jenkins—Mayor of Mount Dora, Florida.

Samantha Kyle—Disabled RAAF veteran and home automation systems specialist, Palmerston City, Northern Territory, Australia.

Byer Levin—Mayor of Tavares, Florida.

Tomas Marichal—Former Marine, self-employed gunsmith. A builder of custom AR-15 and AR-10 rifles and carbines in Tavares, Florida.

Tom Martinson—Mayor of Tangerine, Florida.

Alan McGregor—Semiretired cattle rancher, Bella Coola, British Columbia. Father of Ray McGregor, Janelle Altmiller, and Rhiannon Jeffords.

Claire McGregor—Wife of Alan McGregor. Mother of Ray McGregor, Janelle Altmiller, and Rhiannon Jeffords.

Ray McGregor—Afghanistan War veteran and military historian. Originally from Bella Coola, British Columbia. Living in Newberry, Michigan. Son of Alan and Claire McGregor. Brother of Janelle Altmiller and Rhiannon Jeffords.

Joseph Caylao Navarro—Jeepney barker, living in Quinapondan, Samar Island, Philippines. Sixteen years old at the onset of the Crunch.

Paul Timbancaya Navarro—Coastal fisherman in Quinapondan, Samar Island, Philippines. Owner and captain of FV Tiburon and part-time instructor of the Filipino Martial Arts. Grandfather (“Tatang”) of Joseph Navarro. Called Tatang by both his relatives and friends.

Chuck Nolan—American petroleum geologist originally from Texas, living in Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia.

Ava Palmer—A GIS technician and Australian National University college student raised in Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia.

Major General Rex Raymond—Special Operations Commander Australia (SOCAUST), near Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia.

Colonel John “Jack” Reynolds—Commander, 7th Combat Service Support Battalion (CSSB), in Enoggera, Queensland, Australia.

Rudolfo Saguisag—Retired Philippine Navy NCO. Nicknamed Dolpo.

Lisa Schoonover—Clerk and accountant at Altmiller’s Hardware in Tavares, Florida.

Ralph Simmonds—Immigration officer with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

José Valentin—Former U.S. Army radio repairman. A photovoltaic power sales and service technician with Altmiller’s Hardware in Tavares, Florida.

Quentin Whittle—Former bush logger and commercial hunter, Rapid Creek, Northern Territory, Australia.

Adhi Wulandari— Perantara insinyur (“intermediate engineer”), Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia.

Unlike most novel sequels, Expatriates is contemporaneous with the events described in my previously published novels Patriots , Survivors , and Founders . Thus, you need not read them first (or subsequently), but you’ll likely find them entertaining. Another novel is planned for the series. Check out my blog, www.SurvivalBlog.com, for updates.

They came into the store so quickly that Janelle Altmiller didn’t have time to react. There were three of them, all men in their early twenties wearing hoodie sweatshirts. As they ran up to the counter, two of them pulled out handguns. Janelle was petrified. In a flash, she realized that she was unarmed, and that her husband, Jacob—who was armed—was out of sight in the back of the store, running the panel saw. He was cutting up a piece of plywood for a customer. The noise of the saw would drown out her voice, even if she were to shout for help.