Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse

1997 Rawles, James Wesley (b. 1960). Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse. Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1999. 3^rd exp. ed. as Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse. A Novel of the Turbulent Near Future. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2006. [4^th ed.] as Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2009. 1^st ed. The novel was originally self-published as TEOTWAWKI: The End of the World as We Know It (1997). Before that parts of the novel were distributed as shareware with the title The Gray Nineties and Triple Ought. See also his How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It. New York: Plume, 2009. The author’s name is given as John Wesley, Rawles, which he explains as distinguishing between his given names and his family name. PSt

Dystopia of economic and social collapse in the U.S. The novel focuses on a group struggling to get to a safe enclave in northern Idaho and then try to recreate constitutional government. His Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse. New York: Atria Books, 2011 is described as a companion volume. Sequels include Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse. New York: Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2012, a dystopia set in a collapsing U.S. being rescued by survivalists; Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse. New York: Dutton, 2013; and Liberators: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse. New York: Dutton, 2014. The author is a former U.S. Army intelligence author and describes himself as a survivalist and editor of SurvivalBlog.com.