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It’s all-out war for ruthless red state special operator Kelly Turnbull when he returns in this blockbuster prequel to “People’s Republic,” Kurt Schlichter’s top selling novel of America after the polarized politics of blue versus red have split our country apart.
“Indian Country” finds Turnbull sent back into the blue states to help those trapped inside resist a politically correct police state. As the progressive government ratchets up the violence, Turnbull must mold regular Americans into a fighting force capable of resisting the People’s Republic Army, led by his former US Army Special Forces mentor.
Longer, bigger and bolder than the original, “Indian Country” is filled with Kurt Schlichter’s trademark snarky humor and even more non-stop action, drawing on his work as a television commentator and Senior Columnist for Townhall.com, and his experience as a retired Army infantry colonel.
National Review’s Jim Geraghty calls Kurt Schlichter’s “People’s Republic” “a surreal, fast-paced journey through a dramatically different America … Violent, imaginative, full of mordant humor and dark, gritty details, you won’t want to live in this People’s Republic…but you’ll feel a chill as you wonder how different our real future will be.”
Author and television host Cam Edwards says “Kurt Schlichter's ‘People's Republic’ is a roller coaster ride through a post-election Hellscape that will leave you wanting more.”
Radio host Hugh Hewitt say “Schlichter puts a whole flight of Black Swans in the air --each of them plausible-- and the result is a riveting, page-turner, and a demand from Schlichter for...more.”

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File Size : 2450 KB
Publication Date : May 28, 2017
Word Wise : Enabled
Print Length : 453 pages
ASIN : B0714PQ7S1
Simultaneous Device Usage : Unlimited
Enhanced Typesetting : Enabled
Language: : English
Screen Reader : Supported
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A. L. DeWitt

Insurgency Explained; Cost of War Amortized in lives. A great book

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2017

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If you are not following @Kurtschlichter on Twitter, you're missing out on some great writing. I decided, since I had missed the boat on the People's Republic, to try Indian Country first, and then read People's Republic. This is a great book, for a number of reasons. First, if you're a liberal, please read this book to understand where you're headed. You will probably hate me for this suggestion, but it might help you understand why you're wrong. If you're a conservative, understand that this book paints a picture of what happens if conservatism does not survive. It's a political novel in the same way 1984 was, but the politics do not get in the way of the great story.
If you read this book with an understanding of the author's background in the Army, you'll understand why he can write so authoritatively about organizing an uprising. Without explicitly saying so, he notes the US Army's failures in Iraq, and he incorporates the Baathist resistance approach into his organizing of the people in the novel. If you look at the Hoosiers in this book as the Iraqi insurgents, you better understand what the author is conveying.
Very few authors can tell a serious story and make you laugh. Dean Koontz can. Carl Hiaason can. And Kurt Schlichter can. In the novel he pokes fun at the liberal ideas of gender fluidity, gender identity, equality of result (as opposed to equality of opportunity) and the way that liberal groupthink encroaches on personal liberty. He pays tribute to the Second Amendment, and most importantly, to the M1911A1 pistol (although, he uses a Wilson Combat instead of a Kimber, so we differ there). I like the fact that the realism is there, and that the ugly cost of warfare is not sanitized nicely in this book. Heroes die. Innocents are lost. And, yes, our hero sometimes crosses that line he shouldn't cross. But if you read this book and are unhappy with it, it won't be because of the writing. It will likely be because you're part of the problem in this country, not a part of the solution.

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Mark Andrew Edwards

The Punisher meets Red Dawn

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2017

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Kurt Schlichter’s Indian Country is Red Dawn, without the teenager point of view and without the need to have our Marxists imported via air-drop. To paraphrase ‘Send in the Clowns’, don’t bother, they’re here...and they voted for Hillary Clinton. Although a polemic in favor of the 2nd Amendment, the overall structure is a straightforward action story or perhaps and military fiction novel.

This is a prequel to Schlichter’s first novel ‘People’s Republic’. The main character in both novels, Kelly Turnbull, is already barely leashed killer who deals with his enemies only one way: by shooting them. I said in my review of the first novel by Mr. Schlichter that it was basically a shooter video game in book form and that’s much the same here. There are no clever insurgency plots and subplots*, no infiltration and espionage, no kidnapping and interrogation, no eroding humanity or moral compromise, no sabotage or work slowdowns or any of the shenanigans you’d see in a real insurgency before the shooting starts. Nope, this is just a shooting gallery. Take that for what it is.

And I don’t mean this is a bad book. The prose is fine and mostly error-free. The good guys and bad guys are pretty clear (hint: the bad guys shoot unarmed civilians), the action is clear as well and the book is fast-paced. If you like action movies, and you don't mind fictional Marxists getting killed, you’ll probably like this.

What worked:
The action was the strong point for me. I like gunfights in my stories and this novel delivers them. I like bad guys to get punished (see my gunfight comment) and that happens here as well. Kelly Turnbull’s former commander gets to play ‘noble warrior’ who gets betrayed for not being PC enough and he’s likeable. I like competent people doing things. Kelly Turnbull does care about the Constitution as it was, as do I. Local redneck Larry Langer is legitimately heroic.

What didn’t:
Kelly Turnbull is kind of a dick. He is a one-dimensional, doesn’t care about any one, neither people nor animals. He doesn't feel like SF to me, more like a SEAL.
The plot is too streamlined, I was expecting a game of cat and mouse or for the bad guys to be more than just targets. But that’s not what kind of novel this is.
Most of my problems with the novel are missed opportunities rather than anything I didn’t like. This could have been more well-rounded, more subtle, with personal stakes for the main character. I was expecting the story of how Kelly Turnbull became a quick-killing badass, I was expecting a story of counter-insurgency horror. But Kelly Turnbull is already murderous and jaded when we meet him. He doesn’t lose his innocence or become hardened by the horror of war, of family fighting family (in fact, there’s very little friend vs friend or family vs family in this book…a big miss in a Second Civil War novel).

What scared me:
What felt like a running joke, about social justice scolds correcting people about using ‘hate speech’ or ‘gender identity’, is feeling shockingly accurate. As is the feeling that Progressives don’t want to convince people who disagree with them anymore, they want to kill them. I put the novel down to see Kathy Griffin holding up a bloody severed head of a Donald Trump mannequin. I read quotes from the Evergreen State rioters who were threatening the life of a white teacher who refused to leave campus on their annual ‘Day of Absence’. I see the mayor of Portland saying that there’s no first amendment protection for ‘hate speech’.
And I started getting a queasy feeling in my stomach. Maybe this isn’t just a mindless novel allowing the author to vicariously kill Progressives he doesn’t like. Maybe this is actually a prescient cautionary tale from the world we’re turning into.

*(for an example of what I mean, please read the excellent novella ‘Wasp’ by Eric Frank Russel)

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William E. Crego Jr

Political fiction at its best while paralleling today's climate

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2017

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This is the first review I've ever written. Ever! No one, or nothing else, was worth my time and effort.

I stumbled upon Mr Schlichter's writing on twitter. I researched him, saw his credentials, and immediately felt a bond towards him, bought People's Republic, and was immediately drawn towards Turnbull the way I was Jack Ryan.

Political fiction at its best while paralleling today's climate. The lines almost touch sometimes.

Already licking my chops for more....get to work Colonel!

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Aqua Maureen

A convincing cautionary tale

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2018

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Wonderful story, and all too real. I am not normally a fan of "future dystopia" fiction, but Schlichter is wonderful. I suspect his own life experiences as both a lawyer (which means he uses careful, logical thinking and clear, articulate prose) and a combat soldier (he knows what combat, soldiers, guerrillas, insurgencies and counterinsurgencies are really like) contribute mightily to the realistic feel of his work. I kept wanting to be able to accuse him of being over-the-top... but he wasn't. His scenarios and his characters' reactions to things are all too realistic. Read this work of fiction and be warned: Something similar is coming our way if we don't change some things.

My only complaints were typos throughout (I'm a professional proofreader) and that, at least in the Kindle format, breaks between one scene and the next (shifts from one location to another in the narrative) were not always clear.

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Superb 'what if' story... what if all ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2017

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Superb 'what if' story ... what if all the liberal-left dream policies came true? Kurt Schlichter provides a gripping fictional scenario that is becoming disturbingly close to factual.

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Ripping yarn, heavy on the military adventure

Reviewed in Canada on May 12, 2019

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This novel is a chronological prequel to the other two Kelly Turnbull books, but it's not necessary at all to read it first. It's a story of insurrection against the bonkers PC dictatorship of Blue America, and Schlicter's knowledge of military doctrine and tactics...and guns...brings a very healthy dose of authenticity to the grizzly, hairy-chested action. It's not quite as heavy on the satirical commentary as the other Turnbull novels, but there's still plenty there. Highly recommended.

Mark Parry

Timely and believable

Reviewed in Australia on June 3, 2017

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Kurt has followed up the excellent People's Republic with the prequel to set it in context. It perfectly captures the current zeitgeist of ridiculous liberal fascist kiddies and their unseen masters taken to the logical conclusion. In a simple story it covers the historical contexts and juxtapositions that show how good people can be enslaved, how loyal and decent folk can believe in country even when they know it is evil and hope for change (pun intended) and what happens when ordinary folk are pushed too far.

The depiction of real people as off screen players is perfect and you nod sagely with the realisation that this really is the endgame of the liberal fascists and quasi terrorist organisations like black lives matter.

Best thing is apart from all the politics, apart from the horror of the warning and apart from the sinking feeling you get knowing that this is what the elites like Clinton's, MSM like CNN and the Times, corrupt science and the intelligentsia along with Hollywood and a lot of the 1% want for the world - not just America - this is a ripper read. Well written, fat paced, human characters like Kelly et al with faults galore.

Grab both.

Well worth your time.

Thanks from Australia Kurt. Keep up the good fight and punch back three times as hard.

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Mark C.

Weaving together a great tale

Reviewed in Canada on September 5, 2017

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In this book and and its prequel (People's Republic), the author takes elements from past leftist revolutions of the 20th century, american history and culture and modern american military strategy, tactics and technology and weaves them together in a riveting tale about a second american civil war; and there is no conflict as vicious as a civil war. The familiarity that each side has with each other breeds contempt and an intense animus between the belligerents. This too is believably developed as the story line progresses. Reading this book is like staring into the abyss; you just can't stop looking into it as you read the book to the end. However, it is first and foremost a cautionary tale as the author alludes to in the preface of the prequel; in other words, the whole point of the book being to prevent us from falling into it.

Political novel and dystopian but a good read

Reviewed in Australia on January 11, 2019

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Good strong story and characters. This is /not/ a future the USA wants. It may be one it gets.
Liberal/progressive readers should be warned that it doesn't fit the "narrative" and they won't like it, but read as a warning should be a valuable counterpoint to the aforesaid "narrative".