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Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista

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Reconquista (Marxist invasion, land reform), US apathy/cooperation, restrictive gun control, anti-terrorism legislation and other extra-constitutional government excesses--all these elements support a non-stop, action filled new story about our favorite dark-haired, avengatrix, Ranya Bardiwell, six years after we last left her in Enemies Foreign and Domestic (EFD).

Sequels seldom live up to readers' expectations. However, the fertile ground prepared in Matthew Bracken's first work is not wasted. We discover Ranya eeking out an existence in a camp for politcal prisoners, with no hope of release or knowledge of the whereabouts of her child. I had read the first few chapters of the novel online last year and was primed for resolution. As the story/threads developed, I could anticipate to some degree where we were going, but Bracken skillfully keeps you guessing.

I especially appreciate Bracken's accurate depiction of weapons use, unlike much of the outlandish skills of many greater-than-life protagonists in other works in this genre. What makes his two works sing in my estimation are the carefully crafted 3D characters who exist in a world not improbable.

First of all, this book is NOT a mass market paperback! It is a trade paperback of the same quality, binding and print quality as Enemies Domestic and Foreign.

What Bracken has done in this book is paint a picture of the U.S.A. as a third-world country. It's a pity that all the people who are working so tirelessly to make America into a third-world country won't read this book and find out what their life is going to be like when they succeed. And he has couched it in a fascinating story that keeps reinstating the tension again and again up to the very last page.

"it was those [expletive deleted] illegal aliens--New Mexico just plain got overrun. It should never have come to this--and it all goes back to the federal government in Washington. If those traitorous Quisling [expletive deleted] had done their lousy jobs and stopped the invasion years ago, we wouldn't be in this mess today." (p. 416).

"Well, Jim, it's not like the reconquista boys kept it a big secret, what they planned to do after they seized power. . . . (p. 438)
"Radical politics and raw numbers. . . . The Anglos wouldn't fight for California when they had the chance and now their time is over. . . .
"The la raza crowd called `em racists every time they made a peep about illegal aliens and the gringos crawled into a corner and hid." (p. 438)

If you want to know how so many Americans got brain-numbed by PC and "multiculturalism", read While America Sleeps ( While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America From Within), another maverick book that a lot of Lefties don't want you to read. It tells you everything you need to know.

A satisfying read.

Welcome to the Jungle of illegal immigration and a goverment
whose leaders with marlble sized balls are powerless to stop the influx of millions of border crossers turning the sovereign nation of the United States into a UN circus show of third world poverty, disease and cultural turmoil. Bracken has written it
down, with the hard truthful reality that most Americans look
the other way at, while the present and past Presidents pave the way for an American Union between Mexico, USA and Canada. OMG

You want America to remain a Free and a Sovereign Nation, then
read what just a few years from now could happen to America,
because the invasion is happening now, and the land of the
Southwest and it's citizens are at stake. Domestic Enemies has
all the ducks in a row for you to target what is happening
in America now.

Read how Ranya Bardiwell fights back against all odds to help
shape her future for her son and all freedom loving Americans,
to live within Liberty and Justice for All.

It's a great book with a great ending. Buy it and Read it please.

AJ
Lexington, MA

I usually expect the sequel of a solid book to be a bit less than its predecessor. I was delighted to find Matt Bracken's "Domestic Enemies, the Reconquista" to be even better than his earlier "Enemies Foreign and Domestic".
The first book was solid, fast-moving, and enjoyable, but the second was even better. The subject matter of the second book is even more compelling than was the preceding book's, and Bracken's skill at developing his characters is impressive.
I did something I've not done since reading John Ross's "Unintended Consequences", which was to take every possible moment to devour the book on its first reading, stopping only for sleep and aspirin breaks.
This is an excellent book, alarming in message and compelling in tone. If you read no other novel this year, read Matthew Bracken's "Domestic Enemies, the Reconquista".

This book is fantastic. I'd rate it a 10+ for realism. Mr. Bracken knows from whence he writes. It paints an all too believable picture of the way things are headed. I've just come home from a 13 month road trip that included the majority of our Western States, and the impressions that I got toward our future as a sovereign nation aren't good. Read the book - and it's predecessor first, if at all possible for the background. And above all - don't think "it can't happen here". This is not an alternate future - it's the way things are headed if we don't wake up.

Are you tired of novels where everything is Politically Correct?' Then sit back, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and prepare to be pulled into a place where the P.C. crowd doesn't exist in any meaningful way. Domestic Enemies, the second installment of Matt Bracken's Trilogy, is an outstanding piece of fiction. It traces the trials and tribulations of Ranya Bardiwell, who had lost her father and the father of her unborn child in Enemies Foriegn and Domestic, as she learns of her son's existence and what happened to him while she is in a detention camp. The detention camp is for gunowners, and anyone else who doesn't support the liberal leftist govrnment that is now governing the United States. It also covers the illegal immigration debacle, and shows what could happen if things are not changed, including a currency collapse. I found this an intrigueing book, as well as entertaining. There is a lot of food for thought here, all you have to do is be willing to let your mind digest it.

This sequal to Matthew Bracken's "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" more than lives up to the original work. Fast paced, exciting, engrossing, compelling, and thought provoking are all apt descriptions of the story line and the cast of characters brought to life in it.

The central character, Ranya, carries over from the first novel as she finds herself in a hellish environment of a future America where politlical correctness, rampant unAmerican ideology, political pandering, and an ongoing environment that ignores the growing illegal immigration and border issues lead to insurrection and conditions more closely resembling a banana republic.

Think it can't hapen in America...to answer that question one need look no further than the illegal immigrant demonstrations of the summer of 2006 to realize that most of the conditions presented in Bracken's novel are projections of those very images displayed to us all on the news during that time.

Can Ranya escape her federal government imprisonment, can she ouththink and outfight both federal bureaucracy gone insanely amuk, foereign mercenaries, and an entire state government that has given itself over to a "La Raza" and "Aztlan" mentality that is spreading its cessation tentacles through the southwest?

Find out in this compelling read. And be prepared...the answers are neither clean or all neatly wrapped up.

I just finished this book two days ago. Like his first book "Enemies "Foreign and Domestic" I found myself absorbed and reading late into the evening. It's just the kind of read you can't put down. I'll admit I peeked at the last two chapters when I was three quarters of the way through. Books like this one show me an entirely different world than I know myself. There are scenarios and situations I would never think of. It has however got me to thinking. I gave this book a five star rating but because of the disturbing graphic depictions like that of "Professor Johnson's last Class" I almost dropped it to four. It's a personal thing and I understand how it fits in with the payback part of the story. I'll admit to feeling a little riled up while reading the book. If there's one lesson I came away with it's this: Don't expect to win or keep that which you aren't willing to fight for, and choose wisely. Always remember who you really are and remember "Many a man has lost everything because he was unwilling to risk everything". On another note, Though fictional, I wish I knew many of the people in the book. I could not wish for better bunch of friends and accomplices.

FMH

Bracken is back with the second in the "Enemies" series. The story picks up where ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC left off. DOMESTIC ENEMIES nicely addresses a slight weakness in Bracken's earlier effort by neatly blending a look at the "big picture" nationwide as his characters go about their odyssey. It is not pleasant to contemplate his version of the "United" States, with $29.00 a gallon diesel fuel, "blue bucks", and $25 postage stamps just some of the "attactions" to anticipate.

Those who subscribe to the myth of "cultural diversity" will find this book highly offensive. And that is perhaps the highest recommendation. Bracken's look at the near future is sobering and all too possible. If his next book in the trilogy, FOREIGN ENEMIES, picks up where DOMESTIC ENEMIES leaves off, the future of the US will be frightful indeed.

Highly recommended!

I live in the Southwest. I experience, on a daily basis, the impact of illegal immigration on our quality of life. I see the slippery slope this country/government is on toward what Matthew Bracken writes about in this (soon to be) trilogy. It terrifies me. Unfortunately those of us who can see this potential future, as it is unfolding, are mocked as "gun nuts/survivalists/conspiracy kooks" etc. We, however, will be the ones as someone else has said who are the Patriots who rescue this great nation. God willing. Thank you Matthew for a real eye opener.
God Bless America.