I especially like the resolution of the character who represented the Dishonorable Senator from New York, Charles "Chuckles" Schumer - a first-class nanny-stater, anti-gun bigot, America-hating moron. His character comes to an unhappy end that serves to discredit his "co-religionists" (that religion being NannyStatism, not any valid belief in the Supreme Being) and forces them to recognize the Second Amendment as a valid civil right.

That being said, I thought the book was overly long-winded, that fully 400 pages of the 893 could have been edited out, and that frankly, Matthew Bracken's Domestic Enemies series is far more entertaining, being less about gun arcana and more about the frighteningly believable tale of the destruction of our civil liberties from creeping Socialism. Bracken's characters are more human, better drawn, more fully felt, than Ross'. Bracken likes to put his characters into the grinder and let their weaknesses be explored, both good and bad. It is sometimes a wrenching journey, but the reader is better off having experienced it.

I am now reading Boston T. Party's (I just LOVE that name!) Molon Labe, and while I have only gotten about 50 pages into it, I have to tell you that his writing style is simply superb - even though it's his first novel (as was both Bracken's and Ross') he's as practiced as anybody I've ever read. Furthermore, Mr. Party (see? How would YOU like to be called, "Mr. Party" everywhere you go?) signed my copy at a recent gun show, so I have had the honor of meeting this fine gentleman as well, which is something that has not happened to me.

I have been having a bit of an email exchange with Bracken, and he has told me that he's entirely on his own with the Domestic Enemies series - he's sent no copies to the trade publishers, as he is thinking so far outside of the box that he intends on becoming a success without thier particular brand of "help." His dedication to his craft is exceptional.

I would recommend the true gun enthusiast to read Ross' book, and folks with Libertarian leanings to read all three. You'll learn a great deal about the events of the last fifteen years that our Minders in Washington would just as soon forget, or at least have us remember the way THEY say they happened.about the events of the last fifteen years that our Minders in Washington would just as soon forget, or at least have us remember the way THEY say they happened.