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William W. Johnstone

PINNACLE BOOKS

Kensington Publishing Corp.

http://www.pinnaclebooks.com

4 This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used
fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
events or locales, is entirely coincidental.

PINNACLE BOOKS are published by

Kensington Publishing Corp. 850 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022

Copyright ┬й 1996 by William W. Johnstone

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
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the Publisher and neither the Author nor the Publisher has received any
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November, 1996 Printed in the United States of America 10 98765432

5 Prologue

During the final days of the second millennium, the end came. It had
been predicted; some even planned for it. Most didn't. Those who did
plan were called survivalists-some were called militia-and they were
much maligned by the press and by the government. The left-leaning
liberal press belittled them and the very government to whom they were
paying taxes portrayed them as evil, racist, and dangerous. A few were
just that, but not most. The majority of those who practiced survivalism
and who joined militias were decent men and women who had simply grown