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Don't be a laggard. Buy and read this from a great FReeper.
Matt Bracken ^ | 2011-07-04 | Matt Bracken

Posted on 07/25/2020 8:20:34 AM PDT by old-ager

If you work this right, you will get an inscribed copy from the author. Required reading or get the funk out. Ranya Lives!

(Excerpt) Read more at enemiesforeignanddomestic.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Government; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: lives; ranya; reading; required
Prologue: Opening Day The home team was set to receive the kickoff of their season opener. The 80,000 football fans packing the stadium were on their feet looking down at the two teams lined up on the verdant green field. It was a mild September Sunday in the Maryland suburbs of the nation's capital, and every seat was taken by loyal maroon and gold wearing fans who were hoping to see their team improve last season's dismal record and make a run for the playoffs. The crowd noise reached a sustained roar as they watched the kicker trot toward the teed-up football, they saw the two teams rush at each other, and they followed the flight of the ball high into the air.

In the midst of this jubilant bedlam, in the center of the western end zone upper deck, a forty year old architect from Annapolis was ...

1 posted on 07/25/2020 8:20:34 AM PDT by old-ager
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To: old-ager

GRRRREAT FReeper BUMP!


2 posted on 07/25/2020 8:25:59 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

Read it a good while ago. Great book! Great author! Great Freeper!


3 posted on 07/25/2020 8:27:36 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, Libs, Progs, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
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To: old-ager

I have read all three of the “Enemies” series. I need to read them again and to get the later books as well. I really enjoyed the series and things happening today ping my memory of the plots in these books. Thanks Matt!


4 posted on 07/25/2020 8:29:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: old-ager

Multiple-platform Matt


5 posted on 07/25/2020 8:30:09 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: All

Great man.


6 posted on 07/25/2020 8:41:20 AM PDT by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam; USgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
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To: Perseverando

I second everything you wrote about Matt (Travis McGee) and I want to add that the Department Q series by Jussi Adler Olsen as well.


7 posted on 07/25/2020 8:51:06 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
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To: old-ager

Find a comfy seat before you crack it open. You’re gonna be there a while.


8 posted on 07/25/2020 9:03:11 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: old-ager

Matt is a brilliant writer and a great American. He foresaw much of what is now happening in America years ago, and he has written extremely prescient and entertaining cautionary tales to help frame the necessary responses. If freedom in America is to be preserved, Matt will have been a major force in making it so.

Buy them. Read them. Learn from them.


9 posted on 07/25/2020 9:05:04 AM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: old-ager

I have all of his books but be forewarned, they are definitely NOT quickly read. Bracken writes with great detail and fleshes out the world that his characters live in in great fashion.


10 posted on 07/25/2020 9:11:24 AM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither. Democrats are the party of sore losers and pedophiles.)
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To: SharpenedEdge; Travis McGee

Matt spoke to my local 2A group via Zoom in February about the coming virus and its effects. He has been right on the mark.


11 posted on 07/25/2020 9:25:55 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: old-ager

Matt is a national treasure!

If you want to sample the books before you buy, he has huge excerpts available on his website. Only downside is that you’ll be chompin’ at the bit until you get your book!

Mrs. AV


12 posted on 07/25/2020 9:43:12 AM PDT by Atomic Vomit (http://www.cafepress.com/aroostookbeauty/358829)
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To: old-ager; Travis McGee

I’m reading the first book right now (well, not this actual second). It’s like he has a crystal ball. Great read!

Well done, Matt!


13 posted on 07/25/2020 9:51:57 AM PDT by gymbeau (I refuse to be anonymous. I am THEnonymous.)
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To: T-Bird45
He has been right on the mark.

The least realistic events in Matt's books have already happened.

14 posted on 07/25/2020 10:06:26 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: old-ager

Great reads!


15 posted on 07/25/2020 11:04:24 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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