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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: "The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun" by Matthew Bracken
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 16:19:50 -0500
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"The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun" by Matthew Bracken
    https://www.amazon.com/Red-Cliffs-Zerhoun-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831053/

Book number two of a three book post world financial apocalypse thriller 
series.  I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback 
published by Steelcutter Publishing in 2017 that I bought new on Amazon 
in 2025.  I have books number three in the series.

In the not so distant future, the USA Dollar has lost most of its value 
and annual inflation is running 20% per year.  Gasoline is $60 per 
gallon and rationed at 10 gallons per week if you can find it, so is 
electricity.  Food and housing are comparatively expensive.  The taxes 
have gone up including new personal healthcare taxes and such.  Many 
people have left the USA looking for cheaper places to live.

Dan Kilmer is a former US Marine sniper with a failed shot at college. 
He joined his uncle restoring an old 60 foot long (20 meter) twin masted 
steel schooner down in Florida.  As they got close to the end of the 
immense project, his uncle fell off a ladder and subsequently passed 
away.  Dan inherited the "Rebel Yell" from his uncle and finished the 
project, launching the ship and moved to the Bahamas.  He makes money by 
running small cargoes and helping salvage operations.

Dan Kilmer and his crew bought 100+ drums (55 US gallons each) of diesel 
from a failed NATO base and sailed them to a small coastal town in 
Ireland for resale for a good profit.  After selling many of the drums 
for gold coins, a former SAS Colonel meets up with Dan in the local pub 
and hires him to take a select crew of former military men to the Canary 
Islands to rescue a group of sixty-six girls who were kidnapped in 
Ireland by Moroccan pirates.  The girls are due to be sold for sex 
slaves in another few weeks.

My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.8 out of 5 stars (1,201 reviews)

Lynn