Foreign Enemies And Traitors

I contacted Matt by e-mail as I was finishing the second book in this trilogy and told him just how amazing his book was, how it really brought vivid memories back to life of the time that I spent in Special Forces. We started corresponding and he would send me pieces of book three, this book, as he was writing it and offered me the opportunity to read it in advance and offer suggestions. I was astonished just how knowledgeable he was about insurgency operations and I am truly honored to be one of the people that he acknowledged in the beginning of the book for helping him out. I really do believe that I got the better end of the deal as I got to read this from my Blackberry while I was in camp and it was all that I could do to put it down and get some sleep. It truly is a page turner and you would never know that this book had as many pages as it does, it is seamlessly put together and a very good read. This is a must read for anyone that enjoys apocalyptic novels. It's something that you can read and learn from at the same time. It's not an instruction manual for the coming collapse, but it's not supposed to be. If you don't read anything else for the next year make sure that this book as well as the first two in the series on your must read list.

As some other reviewers have said, this book is amazingly better than the first two. I read them back-to-back last year sometime, and only last week read the third one. How could he have written a third book that surpassed the first two, which were absolutely excellent? Now it's caused me to pick up the first one again and re-read it. This is scary stuff, but completely believable in this age of increasing government intrusion into private lives. Huge thumbs up for all three books!

Matt Bracken has done it again. Foreign Enemies and Traitors is the third in his 'Enemies' trilogy. First was Enemies Foreign and Domestic. Shootings at a stadium result in a ban of all semiauto rifles. This leads to resistance and the story of several who participate to stop and expose the tyranny' Those efforts are only partly successful. The situation gets worse. In Domestic Enemies the Reconquista, we see the Southwest carved up by communist hispanics as the US continues to deteriorate. It is an intricate story of how people suffer much in order to be free. Foreign Enemies and Traitors takes place in the aftermath of two catastrophic earthquakes in the Midwest. There have been further splits amongst the States. Foreign troops are enlisted to 'pacify' a rebellious West Tennessee. The rot is almost complete for the Republic and the country is on its way to take its place in a one world government. Again, recurring and new characters resist. They are people of honor who willingly fight to begin restoring the Constitutional Republic. They are folks with their own faults. These are true human beings. Villains are shall I say, quite reminiscent of current real life traitors. The events are fictitious. But, they are plausible and illustrate what is happening re the destruction of our Freedom. Socialism/communism is rotting the fabric that made us great. Traitors who have no regard for our Freedom have labored long to see to our demise and induction into worldwide socialism. Matt has given us three great reads that are thought provoking and challenging. 'It is meant to leave people thinking, "What would I do? When do I have to make a decision?" Otherwise, our country is doomed to drift into permanent, hard core socialism.' So says Matt himself. I completely agree. Also, he paints a picture of the cost of fighting for Freedom. There are no knights on white horses. There are no complete tidy answers. There is a lot of struggle, death and privation. War is indeed hell. There are people who are committed to real justice, to righting wrongs, often in very graphic ways. This challenges us in the real world to think about what we must do and the price. Are we willing to do the work so that one day the blood sweat tears and dirt are worth it? Though Foreign Enemies and Traitors wraps up Matt's trilogy, it by no means gives a tidy end to what happens in his cautionary tale. There will be much work ahead of us. And we may never be the same. But I believe we can again be free. I'm willing to do my part to Restore the Republic. I hope those who read these books come to that same conclusion. Then get the word out. Help spread hope and inspiration that we don't crumble in defeat. May we have a new birth of Freedom! Thanks Matt. All the best for the future! Michael Hiland

Will America survive the upcoming years as a "sovereign nation," or will the hideous dream of one-world government be our fate? This is the paramount issue facing America in the 21st century; it transcends all other concerns. In Foreign Enemies and Traitors, Matt Bracken has created a brilliant Atlas Shrugged like narrative of how this issue might play out amidst the economic meltdown now consuming us. Conservatives and libertarians throughout America will take to this tale like the colonists took to Tom Paine in 1776. As the story begins, the Second Great Depression (what Bracken has dubbed the "Greater Depression") rages throughout America. The country is splitting up geographically with several secessionist movements in response to a radical leftist administration recently ushered into power in Washington. But the country has also been struck with a horrific earthquake that levels Memphis, TN and the surrounding Mississippi River valley. This causes massive panic made all the worse by hordes of refugees, pillaging war lords, and the inevitable reversion to barbarism that such societal collapses bring. In response to the chaos resulting from the economic depression, the secessionist movements and the earthquake, America's President has invited "foreign troops" under the aegis of U.N. control into the country to try and suppress the rebels and establish a powerful centralized government again under Washington's grip. Mr. Bracken thrusts into this mix a cast of heroic characters with names like Boone Vikersun and Phil Carson (think Daniel and Kit if your historical memory is sluggish) -- to fight a guerrilla war in, of all places, the state of Tennessee against the overweening powers of a grotesquely corrupt Washington. Pure gold! Boone and Carson in the 21st century fighting for the Republic. The female lead, Jenny McClure, is a winsome, feisty teenager -- just waking up to the cruelty of an adult world turned upside down -- and about as courageous as humans get. Upon reading of her trials and how she measures up to them, the emotion felt is twofold: immense awe and the hope that if life's tribulations ever presented such dilemmas to ourselves, our reactions would be equally as spirited in manner. The book's galvanic plot is tension-packed and unfolds with startling surprises right up to the end. Numerous scenes occur throughout in which courage, patriotism, and honor come into play in such emotionally riveting ways as to bring a physical tingling sensation to the back of one's neck. At stake is a clash of governing philosophies between the socialist left and the free-enterprise right, between the "new Constitution" illegally rammed through in a panicky Constitutional Convention and the "old Constitution" which spawned America from the beginning and was the law of the land for 125 years until collectivists degraded it into a "living document" to be reinterpreted with Mad Hatter's logic. Overlying all this is the defense backbone

Matthew Bracken has exceeded my expectations with Foreign Enemies and Traitors! I just finished the third book of the trilogy and am amazed that he could write a third book that beats his first two! If you only read one book this year - this has to be the one you read! Matthew Bracken has provided another outstanding story that seems more real than fiction. It's a page-turner you can't put down! Wake up America and read what our future could hold for all of us! I can't compliment Bracken enough on the trilogy and this book makes me look forward to reading everything he writes! Bracken's books are in the "must read" category and I highly recommend them. Foreign Enemies and Traitors should make the Best Seller List!