Chaos In The Ashes [Paperback]

William W. Johnstone (Author)

Book Description

Series: Chaos in the Ashes | Publication Date: November 1, 1996

Building the crime-free Tri-State on the rubble of post-apocalypse America, Ben Raines and his Rebel team are threatened by anarchists and malcontents who threaten the new America with civil war. Original.

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William W. Johnstone USA TODAY BEST-SELLING author William is admired for the great diversity in his writing talents. Though most known for his western adventures, Johnstone was also a visionary writer. His prophetic stories within his Ashes Series, Code Name Series, and his science fiction books, predicting the Gulf War and the political climate we live in today, was ahead of it's time when it was written. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Pinnacle (November 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786003413
• ISBN-13: 978-0786003419
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #856,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Novel in the Ashes series!!, June 12, 1997

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This review is from: Chaos In The Ashes (Paperback)

"Chaos in the Ashes" is an action-filled novel in the continuing saga of the dynamic "Ashes" series and Ben Raines is the quintessential hero representative of the kind of leader we would all hope to have in the event of government breakdown

3.0 out of 5 stars Fast Moving Action But Hardly Believable, February 4, 2010

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H. J. Rossi (Shawnee Mission, KS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chaos In The Ashes (Paperback)

In author William W.Johnstone 304-page continuation of the "Ashes" Series, Ben Raines, having taken some setbacks previously, now feels strong enough to not only regain the lost ground, but press on to other (former) states, setting up two of the regions that will eventually make up the Tri-state set up he envisions for the USA after it was destroyed in the Great War 10 years before.

As a former infantry combat Marine operator, I tried not to be too harsh, but some of the military descriptions reached pretty far out there. As an example, on page 49, the author advises us the MBT's had been reworked to allow them to run on diesel, gasoline or aviation fuel. Hmm, not real sure I would want to be in the vehicle with 22-1 compression ratio needed to run diesel fuel, when avgas was dumped in. Pieces of your vehicle the size of your fist would be found in the next county. You....would be vaporized.

He also discusses his Air Force which is made up of P-51 Mustangs. Let's get real here, North American Aviation's Mustangs were the finest of the last prop-driven fighters, but that would have been 7 decades before Raines' time.

Movements of large armored formation just doesn't seem real in a world of very limited manufacturing of fuel and material'.

But in his defense, Johnstone keeps the action going for a fast-paced survivalist novel. But I felt it could easily have been made more believable*.

* See review of James Wesley Rawles survival novel "Patriot".

5.0 out of 5 stars chaos review, October 14, 2009

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Randy P. Haas (Marion Ohio) - See all my reviews
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I received the book in a decent amount of time and it was in the condition advertised. What more can I ask for? Thank you.