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America’s growing political and cultural divisions have finally split the United States apart. Now, as the former blue states begin to collapse under the dead weight of their politically correct tyranny, a lethal operative haunted by his violent past undertakes one last mission to infiltrate and take out his target in the nightmarish city of Los Angeles, deep in the heart of the People’s Republic of North America.
National Review’s Jim Geraghty calls Kurt Schlichter’s “People’s Republic” “a surreal, fast-paced journey through a dramatically different America but less than a generation away. … 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.”
“People’s Republic” is the first novel by Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army infantry colonel, a conservative radio and television commentator on the Fox networks and elsewhere, a Senior Columnist at Townhall,com, and a popular and hilarious Twitter raconteur. He's also a trial lawyer, so he has an intimate understanding of evil and deception.
Radio host and commentator Ben Shapiro calls “People’s Republic “chilling,” and author and columnist David Limbaugh calls it “a thought-provoking action thriller set against the backdrop of a shattered America.”
Fox News contributor and author Katie Pavlich says, “They say conservatives are terrible story tellers, but Kurt Schlichter destroys that stereotype in his new novel People's Republic and issues a dire warning about the future of America.”
As with his prior book “Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2013-2041,” “People’s Republic” takes today’s news and projects the trends out into the future. Funny, frightening and action-packed, “People’s Republic” is a thriller that will make you think as well as keep you turning the pages.

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Kurt Schlichter is a trial lawyer, and a retired Army infantry colonel with a degree from the Army War College who writes twice a week as a Senior Columnist for Townhall.com. Kurt was personally recruited by Andrew Breitbart in 2009 to write for Big Hollywood. He is often on the air as a news source, an on-screen commentator, and as a guest on nationally syndicated radio programs discussing political, military and legal issues, including Fox News, HLN, CNN, and the Hugh Hewitt Show, among others. He appears weekly on the Cam and Company Show with his own brand of caring conservative cultural commentary. His previous book "Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041" was released in 2014 from Post Tree Press As a stand-up comic for several years, he has gathered a large and devoted following in the world of social media for his amusing and often biting conservative commentary. He is an active user of Twitter (@KurtSchlichter) with over 75,000 followers. Kurt is also a successful trial lawyer based in the Los Angeles area representing companies and individuals in matters ranging from routine business cases to confidential Hollywood and entertainment industry disputes and transactions. A member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which recognizes attorneys who have won verdicts in excess of $1 million, his litigation strategy and legal analysis articles regularly run in such legal publications such as California Lawyer. Kurt is a 1994 graduate of Loyola Law School, where he was a law review editor. He majored in Communications and Political Science as an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego, where he also edited the conservative student paper California Review while writing a regular column in the student humor paper the Koala. He also drank a lot of Coors. Kurt rose to the rank of Army infantry colonel on active duty and in the California Army National Guard. He wears the silver "jump wings" of a qualified paratrooper and commanded the elite 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry Regiment. A veteran of both the Persian Gulf War and Operation Enduring Freedom (Kosovo), as well as the Los Angeles riots, the Northridge earthquake and the 2007 San Diego fires mobilizations, he is a graduate of the Army's Combined Arms Staff Service School, the Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College, where he received a master of Strategic Studies degree. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Publication Date : September 16, 2016
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Dark, satiric, almost-true dystopian romp through a post-civil war liberal utopia

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2018

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To be honest with you, I wasn't sure how to treat Kurt Schlichter's "People's Republic." It's a raw dystopian espionage suspense-thriller set in a post-civil war America now divided between red states (conservative) and blue (progressive, socialist) that isn't quite flushed out but which still expects you to take its premise seriously.
It's a political commentary that takes aim in two directions at once. On the one hand, at the most extreme American Democratic Party liberal-progressive social, economic and political values, those who embrace them and those who silently consent to them. And on the other hand, at a target reading audience of people like me, conservative-evangelical-veteran conservatives and/or libertarians, who may not be thinking through the consequences of our lukewarm involvement in American politics.
As a suspense-thriller, this is a mediocre, self-published effort. Given the array of impressive endorsements and Schlichter's background in social media, entertainment and the military, I am disappointed by the amateur packaging, ho-hum storytelling and desperate need for professional editing. On that basis alone, this is a two or three-star novel at best. But that's not the intent of the book.
As a searing commentary on the consequences of liberal-progressive values and the possible direction of California as the largest, most blue of the blue states it's another thing altogether. Quite imaginative. And that is the real intent of the book, to create that "Blue State" world so the unaware can wake up to the direction the "Blues" want to take the country.
I won't bother trying to describe the plot as its sole purpose is to give the reader a tour of a possible American future. A future in which West Coast/Northeast States have seceded to form a "People's Republic" (the blues) while the rest of the country (The South, Midwest and Rocky Mountain states AKA the reds) continues on as the United States of America. Schlichter's vision here is interesting, sometimes hilarious (although he is playing it straight) but barely plausible in my opinion. But he pleads his case, and the writing, as social commentary, is often spot on. Enough so to say that the "espionage suspense-thriller" running through the book is important only as it depicts how one unconstrained, old skool, alpha male of a 1980's era men's action novel variety (Kelly Trumball) might handle life in a snowflake progressive society run by limp-wristed liberal democrats, gangsta wannabes and doctrinaire college professor commissars. That part alone makes this worthy reading...
I know this is part one of a trilogy. I haven't read the others and can only hope that the story-telling, characterizations and editing have improved. Because the single joke of the novel is its depiction of blue society. Not sure how one carries that for another two installments. Schlichter is an interesting guy and if he can drag this gig on for a little while longer, my hat is off to him. But I get the joke. Not sure if I need to hear it again in the context of another half-baked plot.
This book is recommended as a 3.5 star blend of four-star social commentary and dystopian world-creation mixed with three-star plot and packaging. But recommended, nonetheless.

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Barb P

the language is graphic

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2019

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I was enjoying the story and I am sure there is a lot to learn from it as we move into these times of unrest. Indeed, I believe that as far as I read, could actually happen. However, I have read similar books with similar plots and action, similar confrontations, and danger, without the graphic foul language. So I returned the books. If that doesn't bother you, then the books are probably a good read.

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Christian D. Orr

The PC Thought Police finally get what they deserve!!

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2017

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The anti-Constitutionalist blue states have broken away from the USA (labeled "The Split") and become a socialist dictatorship--very reminiscent of George Orwell's "1984," except unlike with Big Brother and the Thought Police, this novel has good guys who actually fight back, and effectively to boot!. Xe" for "non-binary genders." Highways and government buildings named for the likes of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, and Bernie Sanders. Fucla, er, UCLA and Westwood exposed for the cesspools of limousine liberalism that they are. Snooty elitist Fucla students getting killed in a race riot. Political correctness and jack-booted government thuggery run amok and then receiving its just desserts, as these PC Thought Police enemies of freedom are dealt richly-deserved deaths.

(Okay, but one gripe: what exactly is this "cis" suffix?? Either I missed something and need to re-read, or the author never actually defined it)

Soooooo many great passages. Sooooo much to love about this novel.

RANDOM STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS (and noteworthy passages):

--"FREEDOM FROM HATE IS TRUE FREEDOM. REPORT HATEMONGERS, DENIERS, AND SPIES TO YOUR PEOPLE'S BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION!" Sooooo reminiscent of George Orwell's "1984": "WAR IS PEACE.....IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH....FREEDOM IS SLAVERY" and "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU."

--"'People's Republic,' choosing the same hoary old cliche every medal-bedecked Third World butcher had grafted onto his country's name in the 1960s and '70s." Haha, astute historical observation.

--"'Don't call it "Flyover." That's going to be your country soon. It's called the United States of America." 'Murica, F**K YEAH!!

--Dallas as the new capital of the USA, love it! And military service mandatory for new would-be citizens--a tad Heinlein-esque?

--"But there was one nice thing about driving in the impoverished Los Angeles of 2034--the near total absence of traffic." Haha, count yer blessings, eh Angelenos!

--"It was remarkable how a nation so focused on rooting out what it called bigotry under various labels always seemed to uncover and more of it lurking inside itself." Pot, meet kettle, or, in the words of CCR, "Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself."

--"Narcing out formerly lawful gun owners was a traditional profit center for lowlifes after the Split. They got a few bucks and the gun owners gio stuck in the prisons the new government had emptied of real criminals." Hey, shades of present-day New York City!!

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KJ Adan

Action packed freedom fighting spy thriller!

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2016

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Full disclosure: I was asked to proofread this novel. I don't mind disclosing that, because as most proofreaders know, sometimes you have to read things that suck. This does not suck.

This is a fast paced, action packed, post apocalyptic spy thriller, in essence. But instead of the US vs the USSR, it's the US vs a frightening version of the US that anybody who's tried to grocery shop in Los Angeles County can easily imagine. The difference is, the free US feels bad for the post apocalyptic US, & is trying to help (sort of).

I say "post apocalyptic" because although there is no nuke war or alien invasion or zombie hoarde, it is the inevitable result of the communism my ancestors endured. Religious suppression, starvation, loss of purchased property are all real things real people endure under communism, & many Americans really don't understand that. Schlichter illustrates this in a way that's entertaining &, sometimes, very funny.

This will also probably anger & upset some folks. That's ok. If something annoys you, examine those feelings. If you can't, enjoy the many explodey things.

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Robert Sharp

Ideas Have Consequences - Or Socialism Is a Bitch

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2018

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Fine first novel from COL Schlicter!

He weaves a story of heroism - of clandestine operations and martial courage - into the portrayal of a dystopian near future in which the USA has split along ideological fault lines. The Socialist coasts double down on their post-modern Collectivist doctrine with predictable, disastrous effect. Our hero infiltrates to ... well, I can't give away how he saves the day.

My only quibble is over occasional punctuation errors. I'm a bit of a purist. Please find a stricter editor.

And please write a sequel!

A dystopian waring of a possible (and highly undesirable!) future USA, but good reading

Reviewed in Australia on January 5, 2019

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Managing to write a political warning about a dystopian future and achieving a readable novel is quite a feat. Very much worth time both on its merits as a novel and for the warning.

Very much more topical than Orwell's 1984 and while I haven't _read_ 1984 since, well, 1984 my memory of that novel's quality is not so clear, but it's a time-tested novel and Orwell a renown writer. Schlicter's work will date much faster; indeed he purposefully changes some of the back story for the successor novel to this one as events have already overtaken it, but not so badly it's not worth reading.

Ace Rimmer

1984 in 2016

Reviewed in Australia on November 27, 2016

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1984 meets Escape from LA. This book is set in the not too distant future with America split between the free Right wing red states and the fascist coastal states. How that came about is that the country has split along political lines. Republican and Democrat strongholds look like North and South Korea. The author did let himself go with a bit of paranoia about the rest of the world refusing to trade with free America after the split. (In reality the rest of us are pretty tired of the left too) but the idea of the Privilege system is too fascinating for the left to pass up. (Basically it means if you are white, straight, and have a job, you are at the bottom of the pile, supporting everyone else's self esteem and needs).
The great irony is that the hero of the story is a man who makes his living rescuing friends and relatives from the fascist states. He is called Turnbull!
If you are not in Australia, the idea of a hero, much less one who helps people escape from the left, called Turnbull is farcical. Our Turnbull would be forcing them back to the socialists.
Still, a great read and a real warning. Especially in light of the Trump win and all the fascist protesting about it.

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Branko

Interesting read

Reviewed in Canada on July 8, 2019

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Seeing the way things are developing in USA something like this could really happen in a near future. That made this book a captivating read. As I had a misfortune to live for over 25 years in something similar to People's Republic I find the description fairely realistic but if those guys excell in anything police state would be that one thing. All in all this was a very interesting book to read.

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A new type of dystopia.

Reviewed in Canada on July 6, 2017

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This book was the first Conservative political thriller that I read, and I am now hooked. I loved the dystopic setting of the "People's Republic", which reminds me of a mix of modern Venezuela, Romania in the 1980s and modern California ruled by Stasi-level enforcement of SJW ideology and Political Correctness which its ruling elites are conveniently immune from. It offers a refreshing new type of dystopia that seems creepily plausible, as opposed to the Christian fundamentalist theocracy that appears in "The Handmaiden's Tale".

It was rather satisfying to read how Turnbull does a Terminator-style rampage at a PSF station, cuts a swath through his PBI pursuers, and leaves the People's Republic's equivalent of Lavrentiy Beria (A very pathetic and contemptible villain) facing a fate that is perhaps worse than death.