Where does American Exit Strategy rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It’s hard to review this book without including my opinion of the other two books in the series.

I did enjoy the first book. The collapse is believable, the character interesting and the survival aspect sensible. It’s hard to recommend this book because of the follow ups.

At the end of the first book I was looking forward to the second and bought the 3rd at the same time.

It falls apart quickly. The patriotic and Christian values present, but not over bearing in the first book, quickly become annoying and hypocritical in the next two.

The big bad goverment that caused the collapse turns into cartoon level bad guys, that simply could not stay in power if the events that are supposed to be happening, were to happen. Their enforcers are incompetent unless the story need them to be better to drive a plot line.

The racial undertones did not go unnoticed by me. Black and Mexican gangs are mentioned, and well as a couple of the bad guys having names like Juan and Ortiz. There is never a mention of the “good guys” racial make up, which makes the other mentions stand out.

There are female characters in the book and they do get into the fight, when they are not cooking and fretting over what the men are up. When they do manage to do more than cook and clean, its looked down upon by most of male characters in the book.

As much as I enjoyed the first book, I would say pass.

Have you listened to any of Kevin Pierce’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Very good job with the narration.