James Rawles - Founders

TI:Turn in (of issued equipment).

T.K.:Tom Kennedy.

TO&E:Table of organization and equipment.

UAV:Unmanned aerial vehicle.

UN-MNF:United Nations Multinational Force.

UNPROFOR:United Nations Protection Force.

UPS:Uninterruptible power source.

VAC:Volts, alternating current.

Valmet:The Finnish conglomerate that formerly made several types of firearms.

VDC:Volts, direct current.

VW:Volkswagen.

WD-1:U.S. military–issue two-conductor insulated field telephone wire.

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 author of the bestselling 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

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rawles, James Wesley.

Founders : a novel of the coming collapse / by James Wesley Rawles.—1st Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover ed.

p. cm.

1. Financial crises—Fiction. 2. Survival—Fiction. 3. Political fiction. 1. Title.

PS3568.A8437F68 2012

813'.54—dc23

2012013276

ISBN 978-1-4391-7282-7

ISBN 978-1-4391-7285-8 (eBook)