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Don't be a laggard.  Buy and read this from a great FReeper.
Matt Bracken ^
 | 2011-07-04
 | Matt Bracken
Posted on 07/25/2020 8:20:34 AM PDT by old-ager
If you work this right, you will get an inscribed copy from the author. Required reading or get the funk out. Ranya Lives!
(Excerpt) Read more at enemiesforeignanddomestic.com ...
TOPICS: Books/Literature; Government; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: lives; ranya; reading; required
    Prologue: Opening Day The home team was set to receive the kickoff of their season opener. The 80,000 football fans packing the stadium were on their feet looking down at the two teams lined up on the verdant green field. It was a mild September Sunday in the Maryland suburbs of the nation's capital, and every seat was taken by loyal maroon and gold wearing fans who were hoping to see their team improve last season's dismal record and make a run for the playoffs. The crowd noise reached a sustained roar as they watched the kicker trot toward the teed-up football, they saw the two teams rush at each other, and they followed the flight of the ball high into the air. 
In the midst of this jubilant bedlam, in the center of the western end zone upper deck, a forty year old architect from Annapolis was ...
 
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posted on 
07/25/2020 8:20:34 AM PDT
by 
old-ager
 
To: old-ager
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posted on 
07/25/2020 8:25:59 AM PDT
by 
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
 
To: PGalt
    Read it a good while ago. Great book! Great author! Great Freeper!
 
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posted on 
07/25/2020 8:27:36 AM PDT
by 
Perseverando
(Antifa, BLM, Libs, Progs, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
 
To: old-ager
    I have read all three of the “Enemies” series. I need to read them again and to get the later books as well. I really enjoyed the series and things happening today ping my memory of the plots in these books. Thanks Matt!
 
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posted on 
07/25/2020 8:29:10 AM PDT
by 
MtnClimber
(For photos of  Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
 
To: old-ager
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posted on 
07/25/2020 8:30:09 AM PDT
by 
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
 
To: All
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posted on 
07/25/2020 8:41:20 AM PDT
by 
veracious
(UN=OIC=Islam; USgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
 
To: Perseverando
    I second everything you wrote about Matt (Travis McGee) and I want to add that the Department Q series by Jussi Adler Olsen as well.
 
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posted on 
07/25/2020 8:51:06 AM PDT
by 
KC_for_Freedom
(retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
 
To: old-ager
    Find a comfy seat before you crack it open. Youre gonna be there a while.
 
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posted on 
07/25/2020 9:03:11 AM PDT
by 
gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
 
To: old-ager
    Matt is a brilliant writer and a great American. He foresaw much of what is now happening in America years ago, and he has written extremely prescient and entertaining cautionary tales to help frame the necessary responses. If freedom in America is to be preserved, Matt will have been a major force in making it so.
Buy them. Read them. Learn from them.
 
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posted on 
07/25/2020 9:05:04 AM PDT
by 
SharpenedEdge
(Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train.  A Storm is coming.)
 
To: old-ager
    I have all of his books but be forewarned, they are definitely NOT quickly read. Bracken writes with great detail and fleshes out the world that his characters live in in great fashion.
 
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posted on 
07/25/2020 9:11:24 AM PDT
by 
gop4lyf
(Gay marriage is neither. Democrats are the party of sore losers and pedophiles.)
 
To: SharpenedEdge; Travis McGee
    Matt spoke to my local 2A group via Zoom in February about the coming virus and its effects. He has been right on the mark.
 
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posted on 
07/25/2020 9:25:55 AM PDT
by 
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
 
To: old-ager
    Matt is a national treasure!
If you want to sample the books before you buy, he has huge excerpts available on his website. Only downside is that you’ll be chompin’ at the bit until you get your book!
Mrs. AV
 
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posted on 
07/25/2020 9:43:12 AM PDT
by 
Atomic Vomit
(http://www.cafepress.com/aroostookbeauty/358829)
 
To: old-ager; Travis McGee
    Im reading the first book right now (well, not this actual second). Its like he has a crystal ball. Great read!
Well done, Matt!
 
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posted on 
07/25/2020 9:51:57 AM PDT
by 
gymbeau
(I refuse to be anonymous. I am THEnonymous.)
 
To: T-Bird45
    He has been right on the mark. The least realistic events in Matt's books have already happened.
 
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posted on 
07/25/2020 10:06:26 AM PDT
by 
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
 
To: old-ager
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posted on 
07/25/2020 11:04:24 AM PDT
by 
aimhigh
(THIS is His commandment .  . . . 1 John 3:23)
 
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