Book Review of "The Attack"

 I am reading Kurt Schlichter's latest book The Attack. I am about half way through it, but thought so much of it that I had decided to do a book review. Fortunately for gentle readers, Mike McDaniel at the American Thinker is a faster reader than I am and has published Book Review: Kurt Schlichter's The Attack.

On January 8, I posted Terrorists attacks in America: for what are they waiting? In that article I suggested we are probably not facing more 9-11 style attacks. They’re just not necessary. More likely are hundreds of smaller attacks, synchronized to occur in every state across the country at the same time. Churches, schools, theaters, WalMarts, every place Americans gather, every place we’re vulnerable. I also suggested more sophisticated actors such as the Chinese military would strike at infrastructure, the Internet, the electric grid, water supplies, food supply lines, again, everywhere we’re vulnerable. Such attacks would kill tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands.

Schlichter has just released The Attack, a different kind of novel. It’s a first person, biographical history of precisely the sort of attack I suggested. I’m certainly no psychic, but one doesn’t need to be to forecast the kinds of terrorist attacks likely in an America with wide open borders and a mentally impaired President whose handlers appease, and perhaps even, ally with terrorist states. They certainly fund them.

As with Schlichter’s People’s Republic series, The Attack posits an entirely possible reality, told afterward through interviews with Americans who survived.

Gentle readers can read the rest of McDaniel's article. As McDaniel notes, it is a novel made up of a series of first-person accounts people around the world who were either involved in the attack or were affected by it. Schlichter tells it in a matter-of-fact way that belies the emotion of the size and horror of the attack. I also suggest that you read The Attack and keep a weapon close by at all times, because you never know not if but when it will happen.