If you want to read a disjointed story-arch of a book (character storylines follow patterns like a Pollock painting) filled with crazy right-wing conspiracy theories, enjoy. Otherwise, avoid this book at all costs. It’s a shame that Ryan Schow doesn’t have more faith in the strength of America because he can write; he’s just lost in the illogical swamp of politically based conspiracy nonsense that carried over into this book’s plot.
Case in point: he alludes to our “abandoned” $20 billion in military equipment in Afghanistan (an example of one of the conspiracy theories he repeats like sermons throughout the book) is used to carry out (by who? The Taliban?) an invasion of the entire US East Coast. That’s pure lunacy. But, it’s what he builds the premise of the book on. Meanwhile, the “EMP” (I put it in quotes because no one ever sees the nuke going off in the sky) merely serves as a bridge from his delusion of our ‘failed economy’ to his excuse for how and why the US will get its butt kicked in the future. (Hmm, $700 billion per year to defend the country, $20 billion in a wide range of military stuff scattered throughout one of the least developed countries in the world. Sure, Ryan.)
But what really made the book painful to listen to was the constant drumbeat of “America has been destroyed from within by people (who shall go unnamed, I guess) working to weaken it on purpose. [FILL CONSPIRACY RANT HERE {COVID, WEST COAST LIBERALS, GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS, BLM, etc., etc.}]…” So painful, in fact, that I couldn’t finish it. And it is so obvious that he was doing it on purpose; one has to wonder what his real motivations are in writing this book. Like maybe, propaganda to weaken America from the inside? Hmmm, maybe Schow should look in the mirror. My opinion? Junk.