- Schlichter, Kurt.
Indian Country.
El Segundo, CA: Kurt Schlichter, 2017.
ISBN 978-0-9884029-6-6.
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In his 2016 novel People's Republic
(November 2018), the author describes North America in
the early 2030s, a decade after the present Cold Civil War
turned hot and the United States split into the People's
Republic of North America (PRNA) on the coasts and the
upper Midwest, with the rest continuing to call itself the
United States. This book, the second to feature Turnbull,
is a “prequel” set shortly after the split, which
was along the borders of the existing states. This left regions
whose natural allegiance would have been to the other side trapped
within states governed by those they detested.
This situation was acute in southern Indiana, where the
population had little in common with the cities of the
north who increasingly oppressed them. Turnbull, whose
military experience included extensive operations in
counter-insurgency, is recruited to go to the area and
assist the population in mounting an insurgency, with the
goal of making the region such a thorn in the side of the
state government that it will be willing to cede the area to
the U.S. as part of a general territorial settlement along
the borders. Turnbull is told to foment a nonviolent
insurgency, but then he is not really the guy you send when
that's your goal. Turnbull himself has no illusions about
the human cost of resisting tyranny and tells those seeking
his aid what they are getting into.
This is a worthy addition to the People's Republic
saga, and along with the action Schlichter has his usual fun
mocking the pretentions and insanity of the dysfunctional
progressive ideology of the PRNA.
May 2020 