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Author : Jeff Kirkham & Jason Ross
Genre : Fiction
I learned about this book from a friend and was curious. Black Autumn is the first on a series of ten books on the apocalypse. The authors illustrate that common, everyday glitches in our system can add up to the total collapse of Western Civilization. This series races around the U.S. as pockets of survivors confront impossible choices and ferocious threats in the wake of the Black Autumn collapse.
This book is a surprising read about what could happen when a nuke is set off near Catalina Island, California, the stock market fails, a dirty bomb explodes over Saudi Arabia, and the world’s nations start to crumble. Green Beret, Jeff Kirkham, and his buddies think they’re ready for another war, but nothing can prepare them for the runaway violence in America after a cascade of terrorism, government blunder, and most people unprepared for living in this new world of chaos who resort to violence to survive. This is a story of a group in north Salt Lake, led by Jason Ross, a successful businessman and his friend Jeff, who prepared in case something like this happened, and if anything it would give you pause as you think how prepared you are to have to live on your food storage, defend your family, and move forward without electricity, internet, or anything else we take for granted for any length of time.
“We have a long way to go before we can honestly consider ourselves “prepared” for a true collapse and the ReadyMan vets, along with thousands of other vets, would like to see people trained and hardened to the reality that might suddenly punch through this wonderland of comfort. Check out Jeff’s videos and his dozens of life-saving inventions at Readyman.com.”
“We hope this novel scared you the way it scared us. Some disasters arrive with foreknowledge, telegraphing doom, begging us to prepare. Other disasters, especially in complex, fragile systems like ours, come out of left field and leave us wondering what happened. Economists call these historical surprises. ‘Black Swans’—events like World War I, the Great Depression, 9/11, and the crash of 2008—and they only make sense looking back. Black Swan events sideswipe history with regularity. No reasonable person can pretend a Black Swan couldn’t happen again. It’s safe to say that none of us is as prepared as we would like to think.”
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The story forced me into thinking deeper about the possibilities of collapse.
I agree. When life is going fairly well, it’s easy to become complacent.
This book made me think more about emergency preparation!