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Chapters (34)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. PROLOGUE
  4. CHAPTER 1
  5. CHAPTER 2
  6. CHAPTER 3
  7. CHAPTER 4
  8. CHAPTER 5
  9. CHAPTER 6
  10. CHAPTER 7
  11. CHAPTER 8
  12. CHAPTER 9
  13. CHAPTER 10
  14. CHAPTER 11
  15. CHAPTER 12
  16. CHAPTER 13
  17. CHAPTER 14
  18. CHAPTER 15
  19. CHAPTER 16
  20. CHAPTER 17
  21. CHAPTER 18
  22. CHAPTER 19
  23. CHAPTER 20
  24. CHAPTER 21
  25. CHAPTER 22
  26. CHAPTER 23
  27. CHAPTER 24
  28. CHAPTER 25
  29. EPILOGUE
  30. Also by
  31. Praise for Harold Coyle
  32. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  33. MORE THAN COURAGE
  34. Copyright Page

—Thomas Fleming, The New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Secret War

“With writers like Coyle standing watch over us, who needs Bruce Willis?”

—Kirkus Reviews

AUTHOR’S NOTE

AUTHOR’S NOTE

This work of fiction, written in 1996, is not meant to be a cautionary tale or a call for action. It is only a story. Still, within my own lifetime, I have been witness to what can happen when civil discourse fails and radical elements of the citizenry feel that they have no other recourse but to take up arms against a government and society they believe has betrayed them. Less than a half an hour’s drive from where I grew up in New Jersey, armored personnel carriers roamed the streets of Newark during some of the worst racial violence of the sixties, raking buildings with .50 caliber machine guns in an effort to suppress snipers. Three months before I matriculated at the Virginia Military Institute, National Guardsmen charged with enforcing the law fired on a body of rioting students at Kent State, killing four. To this sad list one can add Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City. So the idea that we Americans are immune to the sort of civil strife that rocks many a Third World country is little more than an illusion. We are, after all, the inheritors of a government that is founded on a document that states,

“ … when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.”

As an officer in the United States Army Reserves, I took an oath. It is one I will never be able to turn my back on, for this country, our country, is without equal in the world today. It is not perfect. Nor are its leaders always as wise and as noble as we would like. But right or wrong, it is my country, one which I stand ready to defend, against all enemies.

Harold Coyle,
October 18, 2001

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