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Land Of Promise (Counter-Caliphate Chronicles) Paperback – December 1, 2015

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James Wesley Rawles (Author), Bill Buppert (Foreword), Hugh J. Latimer (Foreword)
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  • Series: Counter-Caliphate Chronicles (Book 1)
  • Paperback: 354 pages
  • Publisher: Trident Media Group, LLC (December 1, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1475605609
  • ISBN-13: 978-1475605600
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (151 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 starsVery disappointing
By C. Goble on December 14, 2015
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I'm a big Rawles fan, and was really looking forward to this, but it was a huge disappointment. It was really dry and tedious, and the characters were incredibly underdeveloped, and therefore implausible. Huge swaths of the book were just tedious shopping lists of gear, rather than the development of an actual story. Given the immense stakes of its premise, I kept waiting for a Brad Thor or Vince Flynn-like gravity to the characters and their narratives, but it never came. I forced myself to finish it, but I regret doing so.

I continue to be a fan of Rawles and his work, and am grateful for the influence it's had on my own life. Therefore, I really hope the next installments are actual stories with things like arcs, development, drama, and interesting characters.
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1.0 out of 5 starsIt seems that each one got worse. I do not know if he is writing ...
By Amazon Customer on December 16, 2015
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I have been a big Rawles fan since Patriots. It seems that each one got worse. I do not know if he is writing books to continue publishing, but it is not working.

Land of Promise is horrible! It is a big shopping list of unattainable items for the average human being. I know they are starting a new nation :) in the middle of barren (muslim majority) Africa, but it read like a military field manual. It is nothing like his previous series. Please do not waste your money. Wait for it to come to a library if you want to waste your time.

I will not buy another book in this series.
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1.0 out of 5 starsNot worth the time or the money
By Amazon Customer on January 1, 2016
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I like his blog and read it often. That being said this is one of the worst books I have ever picked up. One useless shopping list after another regarding munitions. A complete joke of a book. I was halfway through the book and was ready to delete it before any action started. Then back to these shopping lists – and the selling of citizenships . . . is he kidding? This is a plan? For what? Two close friends that read the hard copy felt he exact same way. If it were not for the fact that it’s in my Kindle I would have burned it.
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3.0 out of 5 starsLand of Promise - From the Western Frying Pan into the African Fire
By Jerrygills on December 5, 2015
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I am somewhat disappointed in the latest Rawles book in spite of loving Patriots and some of Rawles' other works. However, when I first wrote the review, I had only read 25% of the book and gave Land of Promise just one star. But after forcing myself to finish the book, I began to understand the reasoning behind the location and uprated it to 3 stars. I must add that the biggest reason for my disappointment in the location is that I wanted a reasonable alternative to living in the US when the SHTF.

However, I still question the establishment of any nation as a Christian refuge in Africa. Money, even enormous sums will not tame or paper over problems in that region. That said, after further reading, I understand that establishing a new nation with such a huge military build-up had to be outside the US. American Progressives complain about a little old AR 15 and a paltry 2,000 rounds of ammo so I can only imagine the hue and cry if a religious group within the US sought to arm themselves like Ilemi. As they say in the real estate business, it is "location, location, location, and I just don't like Africa for the location.

Just as Israel was planted in a crossroads between and among fierce Islamist rivals, this so called no-man's land in Africa will invariably will lead to conflicts with not only ancient African tribes, but also the adherents of Islam. With the persecution of Christians throughout the Middle East, why even entertain the thought of drawing closer to those barbaric conflicts where more than one country seeks a nuclear bomb and has threatened our very existence?
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5.0 out of 5 starsTo establish true freedom...
By Rucksack Rob on December 4, 2015
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In 1933 we had 'Lost Horizon' (Shangra'La) by Hilton
In 1974 we had 'Ecotopia' by Callenbach
In 2015 we have 'Land of Promise' by Rawles
Each of the these stories center around finding and/or establishing a home or place of peace without outside influence or distractions. Unfortunately, as in each of these stories, that is almost impossible to do, especially when your government(s) and or, as in this case, Islamic terrorism attempts to prevent that.
When a group of both young and older Christians from various ethnic backgrounds search for a place of personal and religious freedom they settle in central Africa to start a new life and establish a free society of Christians. They start with a limited central government, no fiat monies (gold and silver backed currency only), freedom to own any type of firearm(s) or weapon(s) with the exception of WMD's and most of all freedom of religion.
There is a group of agnostics (if you will), who are welcomed and live within the borders of the new country and are allies with the new government and its citizens. But what unfolds inside the pages of 'Land of Promise' are the trials and tribulations of establishing a new country, not unlike those of the pilgrims of early America, the Jews of early Israel or those of many Christian nations attempting to establish themselves in modern Africa (as noted in the story).
History always seems to repeat itself and it is no different here in this story of religious persecution.Read more ›
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