Coming Collapse

“Coming Collapse” otherwise known as the “Patriots” series are a series of survivalist novels by James Wesley, Rawles, the popular American survivalist blogger and author. The debut novel of the series was “Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse” that was first published as shareware in 1995, before formal publication as a paperback in 1998. Wesley was born in 1960 California and attended San Jose State University from where he got his bachelors in journalism. Prior to becoming a fulltime survivalist and novelist, Wesley served as an intelligence officer with the US Military, International Countermeasures Handbook Managing Editor, and Regional and Associate Editor of the Defense Electronics magazine. Throughout the 1990s, he spent a lot of time working with several software and electronics companies one of which was Oracle. As a survivalist consultant, blogger and writer he is a lifelong proponent of family preparedness and advocates that people move to lightly populated remote areas and store food for potential calamities. James Rawles calls himself a Christian Constitutionalist libertarian, that believes that modern society is so fragile that the only people that would survive a calamity and maintain their personal freedom are those with guns, groceries and tangibles such as silver, to barter for things they need.