Tell no one, trust no one.

The ongoing right between those determined to maintain an American's right to bear arms versus those who want the imposition of gun control, morphs into the even greater conspiracy to seize the United States itself. As bombs explode, crowds are shot down and mind control enters into the story, only one man, renowned hunter John Hatch, and a small handful of friends emerge slowly to try to save everything.

A conspiracy story of truly epic bounderies, this political, cum military, cum gun toting thriller barely has a chance to draw breath between these explosive scenarios. It is chilling, it is obscenely dark and worrying and worst of all, actually seems mostly plahsible. As a Brit, I found this a difficult book to get into at first - the seeming hysteria of large parts of America over their rights to go around carrying guns not just for hunting but for 'prosecution' against others as keen to preserve the same rights, does seem to us mostly as truly ridiculous, indicating an enormous lack of faith in their peacekeepers and government and insecurity of the individuals themselves. This difficulty was further enhanced by the narration by Daniel McColly, which was soft but fast paced and, though my ear adapted later, was initially hard to follow. However, the story was well written, the arguments well rehearsed and the whole rich in the unexpected.

My thanks to the rights holder of Who's Minding America, who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy, via Audiobook Boom. It really is a remarkable thriller. However, my failure to even be able to take the gun lobby seriously somewhat dented my enjoyment of this story, leaving the deeper implications which would have been more closely aligned to my personal misgivings, mostly untouched. Not a book I'd recommend to Brit readers unless they, too, seem to have fallen into that firearms for everyone pit of despair.

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