"William W. Johnstone - Ashes 15 - Terror In The Ashes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Johnstone William W)

They were wrong.

Again this man rose out of the ashes and again he started

building his army to fight the central government of the

United States, now so corrupt and

dictatorial some were comparing it to Hitler's reign

of terror decades past.

The central government called the freedom

fighters scum and traitors and malcontents. Those

who supported

the efforts of the breakaways called them Rebels.

The Rebels wrested the power from those who had

turned what had once been the greatest country in the

world into no more than a prison camp. Then the

sickness struck the land. No one knew where it came

from or how to fight it. The sickness spread

world-wide, and that was the last blow for an already reeling

earth. When the tide of death had run its course,

there was not one stable government left on earth.

Chaos was the order of the day. Robbery and rape and

murder and enslavement and assault became

commonplace. Outlaws and warlords took

control. The world was suddenly plunged back
into medieval thinking.

Except for a few hundred men and women called

Rebels who had kept their heads down and their wits