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I made it all the way through this book. It wasn't easy as the writing is as times stilted or tell versus show. Sometimes the author repeats the same piece of information, and foreshadowing is obvious. In addition, the premise is flawed. There is no military presence in the area the book is set in, but in "real life" the military or national guard would be a presence, and much earlier than it mentions in the book. Most people who have half a brain also have enough non perishable food on hand to last at least a month, so the complete breakdown of society as shown in the book would happen much slower, if at all. The military is overly lauded in the book, likely due to the authors implicit bias towards military service. "Liberal" characters, the few who are shown, are one dimensional, poorly written foils for the "good guys". A decent try if this book had been a college freshman term paper, but not really worth the read otherwise. This man has a PhD?