The Fall of America: Enemy Within (Book 3)
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Authors: W.R. Benton
Tags: #partisan, #russian, #traitor
The Fall of America
Book 3 - Enemy Within
W.R. Benton
ISBN 978-1-939812-69-8
Kindle Edition 1.01
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W.R. Benton
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Books by W.R. Benton
The Fall of America, Book 3, Enemy Within
The Long Ride Home (Co-Authored with Grady Clark)
The General's Wife, with Bounty Hunter Jake Masters, Book #2
War Drums (Sequel to War Paint)
The Youngest Mountain Man
Hired Gun
The Fall of America, Book 2, Fatal Encounters
The Fall of America: Book 1, Premonition of Death
Adrift (Young Adult Fiction - Survival)
Nate Grisham, Black Mountain Man (Co-Authored with Grady Clark)
Nate Grisham, Black Mountain Man, in Renegade Trapper (Co-Authored with Grady Clark)
Red Runs the Plain
Fur Seekers (Co-Authored with Grady Clark)
Jake Masters: Bounty Hunter
Available as an Audio Edition
Missouri in Flames, I Rode with Jesse James
War Paint
Available as an Audio Edition
Bubba's Dawg Might be a Redneck (Southern Humor)
Silently Beats the Drum
James McKay, U. S. Army Scout
Alive and Alone (Young Adult Fiction – Survival)
Available as Audio Edition
Simple Survival, A Family Outdoors Guide (non-fiction)
Impending Disasters (non-fiction)
Dedication
To Judy Maben, Billie Trout Patterson, Kimberly Kucera Luke, Firecracker LM, Stacie Burns, Linda Vee Sado, Lila Sue Riley, Kristie Tucker West, and Marilyn Lenaham-Fischer, all
special friends on Facebook and good people.
A special dedication to Wendy Hartman, Wendy Gay, and
Lynn Marie Gilleran Eisen, three
caring women who are always there when I need someone to listen or to keep my spirits up.
Many folks who read “
Fall of America: Premonition of Death
” asked why I had shotguns as the primary weapons used by the main characters. There are a number of reasons, but the principal one is the cost of assault rifles versus shoguns. Additionally, the most commonly found long gun in American homes today is a shotgun. Shotgun empties can easily be reloaded quickly and at a much cheaper cost and ease than rifle shells. The shotgun has choke and every single time you pull the trigger, you create a cone of fire filled with lead, with different types of chokes controlling your spread. Anyone hit within the pattern of fire will feel the shot, although it may not kill your adversary, depending on shot placement and distance, along with other factors. Shotguns can also fire lead slugs, which many folks have used historically to hunt deer. Slugs have fair accuracy, but nothing like a rifle. Additionally, since I prep for survival, it just makes good horse sense to me to stick to the more commonly found weapons, because if push comes to shove, the most common ammo found following a collapse will be for these weapons. Also, a shotgun can be sawed off, which is hard to beat in clearing rooms or in close contact with an enemy.
If a fall or collapse does happen in the future, most of us will be stuck with what we have on hand, so we'll either die or survive with what we own, can steal, or take from the dead hands of our enemies. I suspect military weapons will quickly make an appearance, but only after folks have gathered together and organized to fight for freedom. I suspect, little by little, weapons will change as they're taken along with ammunition, following raids, killings, and hijacked truck convoys.
There were also some doubts a man would cry over the death of his dog and then viciously maim a man for life during an interrogation. I happen to be a man that loves my dogs dearly, which I cannot say about many people I've met. I strongly suspect, when the end comes, folks will love their pets even more than now, because animals give us unconditional love and ask nothing in return and love will be hard to find. Actually, simple kindness will disappear. Interrogations will be crude and bloody affairs
and don't think they won't be. When lives may depend on information gathered, and quickly, the means will justify the end. Human life will be of little value, but knowledge of what a potential enemy may have planned will be great wealth. I, for one, will do what it takes to get information needed to protect myself and family.
WR Benton
Jackson, Mississippi
“We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.”
—
Charles F. Browne
“My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”
—
Thomas Jefferson
"The government is merely a servant
merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them."
—
Mark Twain
What is the series “The Fall of America” about?
WHAT IF IT ALL CAME CRASHING DOWN?
It started with the biggest stock market crash in history. Banks closed down under the weight of their bogus investments, and the financial sector failed. People looked to the government to make it all better. However, they couldn't. Hyper-inflation, mass unemployment and infrastructure started to breakdown. The food trucks didn't show up at the stores, and the shelves went empty.
Things turned ugly fast when there was no power for long parts of the day —then forever. Cops, doctors, and trash collectors just stopped showing up for work when the paychecks were delayed too often, or never came. Things started falling apart quickly after that. Whole regions declared a "State of Emergency" in an effort to maintain order and civility, but it wasn't always enough. Starvation, looting and murder became the norm. Then, our American civilization collapsed completely.
The Fall of America, Book 1: Premonition of Death
is the beginning of a new series, about an average man who's life goes downhill fast, once society breaks down. Set in the rural south, a scorched-earth showdown with some local thugs leaves John and his wife homeless, and on the run. He encounters a member of a survivalist group, made up of former military personnel, and joining them may be his only hope. Just basic survival becomes vicious, resistance is at any cost, as the devastated country comes under new siege—invading Russian troops
The Fall of America, Book 2:
Fatal Encounters
is is the
c
ontinuing the saga of the fall, John and his friends come face to face with
the
Russian
s
, but unlike the first book, this time they're ready and able
to
offer much more resistance.
The
invaders try to pacify the areas of the South under their control. The American resistance groups divide their forces into small cells to better operate effectively behind enemy lines. But as their efforts begin to ga
in ground, the Russia
ns respond with harsh reprisals; mass executions become the norm and prison camps soon spring up in remote small towns. “Fear brings compliance,” is their motto. The battle for control of Mississippi gets hot, and a violent world gets even more ugly.
The Fall of America, Book 3:
Things are turning
as t
he partisans
get more organized
and with this organization comes larger attacks on Russian targets,
resulting
in more
civilians
killed in reprisals.
The
partis
ans become better organized as the Russians become
even
more sadistic
in their tactics
. The Americans are now attacking gulags and air bases when the opportunity arises and Russian casualties mount, but there is a
t least one
traitor or more within. Can
the patriots
discover the enemy within?
BOOK 3
Enemy Within
C
olonel Sokol stood in ankle deep mud on the edge of a swamp, as his radio operator stood beside him, and yelled into a handset, “Look for the Americans, you damned fool! Of course they'll not be easy to find, but intelligence said there is an old mansion deep in the swamp, so find it and do the damned job quickly. Out.” He stepped over the body of a dead American and never noticed the man's unseeing eyes or the puddle of blood under his ripped apart torso. The man had died from multiple gunshots to his chest and stomach.
Sokol was a short man with a bald head and bad teeth. He was a heavy vodka drinker and his once brilliant mind was only a shell of his previous intelligence, due to alcohol abuse. He was fat, and only five feet three inches tall, and two-hundred and fifty pounds, so he was a big man. His troops often laughed and called him 'Barn Door,' because he looked wider than he was tall. While he saw himself as a genius, in reality, he barely functioned. His assignment to Edwards, Mississippi, as the Russian anti-partisan commander, came with a warning; wipe out all resistance in the state within one year or be removed from command.
