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Military Science Fiction by the Author of A Desert Called Peace and A State of Disobedience. A Frighteningly Possible Novel of the Next Century, Where Europe is an Islamic Stronghold and the Staging Ground for the Final Jihad Against the Great Satan:

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“Slavery is a part of Islam . . . Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.” —Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, author of the religious textbook At-Tawhid (“Monotheism”) and senior Saudi cleric.
Demography is destiny. In the 22nd century European deathbed demographics have turned the continent over to the more fertile Moslems. Atheism in Europe has been exterminated. Homosexuals are hanged, stoned or crucified. Such Christians as remain are relegated to dhimmitude, a form of second class citizenship. They are denied arms, denied civil rights, denied a voice, and specially taxed via the Koranic yizya. Their sons are taken as conscripted soldiers while their daughters are subject to the depredations of the continent’s new masters.
In that world, Petra, a German girl sold into prostitution as a slave at the age of nine to pay her family’s yizya, dreams of escape. Unlike most girls of the day, Petra can read. And in her only real possession, her grandmother’s diary, a diary detailing the fall of European civilization, Petra has learned of a magic place across the sea: America. But it will take more than magic to free Petra and Europe from their bonds; it will take guns, superior technology, and a reborn spirit of freedom.

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In 1974, at age seventeen, Tom Kratman became a political refugee and defector from the PRM (People’s Republic of Massachusetts) by virtue of joining the Regular Army. He stayed a Regular Army infantryman most of his adult life, returning to Massachusetts as an unofficial dissident while attending Boston College after his first hitch. Back in the Army, he managed to do just about everything there was to do at one time or another. After the Gulf War, with the bottom dropping completely out of the anti-communist market, Tom decided to become a lawyer. Every now and again, when the frustrations of legal life and having to deal with other lawyers got to be too much, Tom would rejoin the Army (or a somewhat similar group, say) for fun and frolic in other climes. His family, muttering darkly, put up with this for years. He no longer practices law, instead writing full-time for Baen. His novels for Baen include A State of Disobedience, Caliphate, and the series consisting of A Desert Called Peace, Carnifex, The Lotus Eaters, The Amazon Legion, Come and Take Them, The Rods and the Axe, and A Pillar of Fire by Night. He has written novels with John Ringo: Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes, and The Tuloriad. Also for Baen, he has written the first three volumes of the modern-day military fiction series Countdown.

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Publisher : Baen; Reprint edition (February 23, 2010)
Language : English
Mass Market Paperback : 512 pages
ISBN-10 : 1439133425
ISBN-13 : 978-1439133422
Item Weight : 8.2 ounces
Dimensions : 4.19 x 1.1 x 6.75 inches

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Stephen J. Carter

Adrenalin-Fueled Dystopian Suspense

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2016

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I thoroughly enjoyed this story of a possible future showing the outcome of an Islamic supremacist takeover of Europe. By the 22nd Century former native residents have become jizya-paying 2nd class subjects, or janissary troops in the Caliphate military, or outright slaves. Islam has become the central ideology across the continent, and tolerates dissent even less than the cosmopolitan Left does today. The novel follows the turmoil that enters the lives of several characters pulled from their toil. The escalation of events is handled very well, pushing up what's at stake and showing the protagonist's measured, building, visceral response. The story's climax really rocks! I have since gone on to read the first two titles in Kratman's 'Carerra Series', and those too are storytelling at its finest.

I also enjoyed how the author explores the world according to Islam, its ideology, its worldview, where the expansionism comes from, what it portends, how it can be resisted and fought, what the risks are, and what the outcome could be if no resistance is forthcoming.

Plus the novel is just great entertainment. It's one of the best high-action, adrenalin-fueled suspense novels on a plausible direction this global conflict could take. It's full of relentless action. Plus the characters resonate and feel very true-to-life.

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David Rosner

Exhilarating read!

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2019

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This book is fast paced, exciting and interesting future history dystopian action novel! It’s also free. I highly recommend it.

Although the title may invoke the historical Muslim caliphate, this book takes place in a future dystopian future caliphate in Western Europe! Low Western European birthrates, high Muslim birth rates and an influx of refugees from the Middle East has turned Europe over to the more fertile Muslims. This is a terrifying and thought provoking prospect that many people are afraid to discuss openly.

While I don’t agree with all the authors premises, he gets some things right.

First published in 2007, the author correctly predicts future waves of Muslim refugees to Europe and a rise in terrorist attacks throughout the west. This happened.

He predicts Britain attempting to distant herself from the European Union in the mid-2010s although not in the way it happened in our world. I don’t want to ruin the novel but Kratman has his own “version of Brexit.”

He also predicts the election of a Trump-like president in the United States in 2016 and the rise of populism in the United States. In this novel it’s much worse than our world.

He predicts the rise of a culture of political correctness and censorship on the left side of the political spectrum in the west. This is happening alongside the rise in right wing populism.

The author does not adequately predict the rise of nationalist movements in Western Europe. This is already happening in our world as part of the same populist phenomena responsible for Brexit and Trump. This is particularly true in Eastern Europe.

The book features cool future technologies including cybernetic implants, electronic telepathy, human programming and remote controlling of humans by other humans.

Despite predicting some remarkable future technology, the author is simultaneously a bit a luddite and predicts fuel shortages stemming from peak oil making transportation more expensive in the future. Despite the disruptions caused by war and genocide in this novel, this post-peak oil scenario already seems unlikely due to the proliferation of fracking, renewables and EVs by 2019 in our world.

Although the author has his biases, the novel nonetheless asks thought provoking questions. Many people assume that every group of immigrants will assimilate. This is true until one doesn’t. People also assume that educated people will always make the best decisions for themselves and their country. That is often wishful thinking.

The issue of Islamic terrorism and the question of whether Europe can assimilate a large Muslim immigrant population are two of the defining questions of the first half of the 21st century. As of 2019, it is not clear whether Muslim immigration Europe will succeed.

I’d recommend this book to alternate history fans, history buffs and conservatives.

I would not recommend to the politically correct.

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Thrilling adventure, frightening analysis of current trends

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2020

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I didn't realize that the author, Tom Kratman, had helped John Ringo with three of his earlier novels about fighting invading space aliens. With that recommendation, I would have picked this one up before now.
The story loosely follows members of a German family. The more or less current time young German woman is known only by her journal, kept and read many years in the future by her descendent, another woman. But in the future, the Caliphate has been instituted in a Muslim Europe. The Christian Germans are squashed into the state of subservience the Muslum Holy books named Demitude. Demitude is a real thing, even in the 20th century. It is a state of living that isn't slavery but rather a state of having a legally restricted mode of living.
The author supposes a nuclear attack on the USA by Islamic fanatics. This naturally angers Americans, who decided to reduce any future threats to them, over time. In the event, the intelligence services get wind of a bioweapon project set up in Germany, a part of the Caliphate. An emotionally ruined CIA operative takes the task of destroying the bioweapon project.
It is all very well thought through, militarily, scientifically, culturally, and politically. The writing is strong, clear, and rushes the story right along.
As a bonus, Kratman adds his personal views of what is most likely to happen demographically, politically, and culturally in Europe over the next century or so. That alone makes for a stimulating read. I wish people with other views could express them so vibrantly. Sadly, too often those with differing views simply fall back on insult.
Highly recommended.

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Instantly out of date but OK

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2020

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This book was published in 2008. This review is written during the 2020 COVID-19 “pandemic”. Although considerably different it turns out that the actual 2008-2020 history has been nearly as weird and just as improbable as Kratman’s fictional history. That’s a fundamental danger of all science fiction set in the near future but this author manages to keep it readable anyway.

For various reasons I was never too fond of Kratman’s Carerra series. The writing in this book is much better. The ending was a little too upbeat for my taste but the my list a favorite 20th century writers include LeCarre and Raymond Chandler.

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DS, Isle of Anglesey

Prophetic and depressingly accurate view of our not too distant future

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2016

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Prophetic and depressingly accurate view of our not too distant future in Europe (unless Europe wakes up to the realisation that it is being colonized by a hostile force....).
Well written, accurate in its depiction of a very sick culture, and a scathing condemnation of a woolly-headed population whose "leaders" will allow them and their culture to be destroyed by invasion disguised as immigration.
For those who cry "racist" - No. This book is about a culture and a way of life utterly foreign and hostile to the civilised west. A culture and way of life which considers it right to murder anyone who disagrees with them.
Read it and be warned.....

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J. W. Treadaway

An engaging if disturning read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2014

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I found this book to be unpleasant to read but that isn’t a condemnation: it’s about an unpleasant subject matter. Some of the sex scenes were quite graphic but none of them pornographic. The violence, too, was nasty but – as I said earlier – violence is meant to be nasty: this isn’t ‘Saturday morning pictures’. I can't add much to the plot discussions that hasn't already been covered by other reviewers, but I will say that I take issue with the accusations of racism – the author is clearly not racist. He doesn’t like religious extremists much but that’s not racism: that’s just common sense. He doesn’t like Europeans much either. But everyone’s entitled to an opinion. I rejoice that I live in a society that this sort of book can be published in – not possible in many areas of the world. Will I read it again (as I often do with really good books). Probably not. Would I recommend it to a friend? Yes I probably would.

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Neil

Caliphate, dangerous hate!

Reviewed in Canada on September 20, 2016

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Superb tale, very defly written. I enjoy all of Tom's tales, due to the way the mores of the cultures interact with the morals of the folk in the stories. Thought-provoking, as well. I re-read Glubb Pasha's books, on the Middle East, after finishing Caliphate, to refresh my memory about the origins of the Muslims, and about the workings-out of their religion. Another book, from WWII, was also re-read, and it was Poppski's Private Army (for western Egypt, and Libyia, and the folk living there).

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Valentino

interesting!

Reviewed in Italy on September 21, 2015

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the book is quite good, but suffers from three issues:
- the writing style and quality are a little poor IMO, but still offer an easy reading
- the plot is nothing impressive
- the author uses the book to promote his own political views and prejudices, although he's obvious in doing so

on the other hand, the story is captivating, the characters well developed, and above all, the scenario is thrilling. The setting is imaginative and speculative, of course, but still it makes the reader wonder what are the chances of it becoming a real eventuality, and in so doing to ponder about the present day issues which look like grim omens of that imaginary future. After all, the book was written well before the rise of the ISIS...

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MDG

Chilling Dystopian Novel

Reviewed in Italy on May 10, 2013

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Not a great book, but still an interesting read. The plot was decent, even if it is predictable. The characters were very good, fleshed out so that you really get a feel for them. I do think that some of the more explicit sexual scenes were unnecessary, did not add any thing to the story, while trying to portray the muslims as more evil than the westerners. Also the SF parts of the novel were not explained in a way that the reader could understand.

I would recommend this book to anybody that enjoys reading dystoian, fantasy or thrillers.

Afterword, do read this as it is good for a laugh. Mr. Kratman seems to think he is in a position to be giving advice to Europeans. In fact he has a list of 10 things we should do to save ourselves from this terrible fate. I won't bore you with the list, except to say that the U.S. is doing a good many of the same things that Mr. Kratman accuses the Europeans of!

He also mentions Mark Steyn's position, ( I suppose he is referring to his book "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It") about the decline of Europe. Yet he fails to mention Mark Steyn's other book " After America: Get Ready for Armageddon" where this time Steyn's position is the downfall of the U.S. Only faster and a lot less pleasant than Europe's.

Mr.Kratman also mentions some legal cases in Europe where the judges took the side of the Muslims even to the point of citing the Koran.

In Pennsylvania at a Parade of Atheists of Central Pennsylvania. a man was attacked by a Muslim for wearing a costume of a Zombie Muhammad. Even though the man admitted to attacking the other man, this did not stop the judge from throwing the case out of court, an stating the following:

"In fact I have a copy of the Koran here and I challenge you sir to show me where it says in the Koran that Mohammad arose and walked among the dead. I think you misinterpreted things. Before you start mocking someone else's religion you may want to find out a little bit more about it. It makes you look like a doofus... In many Arabic speaking countries something like this is definitely against the law there. In their society in fact it can be punishable by death and it frequently is in their society."

I think Mr. Kratman would be better off offering his advice to his fellow Americans, after all according to his own afterword it s too late for us!

I was pleased to see he dedicated his book to Oriana Fallaci among others, one of my favorite authors. RIP Oriana

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