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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun" by Matthew Bracken
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 16:22:59 -0500
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On 5/9/2025 4:19 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "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

The author has a website at:
    https://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/

Lynn