Matthew Bracken

This novel is an expression of the fear that haunts gun owners in modern times; the knowledge that their hobby and sometimes their livelihood is something restricted more and more to governments alone. The tradition of American militiamen resisting tyranny is under attack from all sides, and seemingly with every highly-publicized massacre the screws tighten. Speculation that some agency, foreign or domestic, is actively behind all, or at least some, of these conveniently-timed incidents is on the border between conspiracy theories and legitimate speculation.

If you're a member of the "gun culture" and care about these issues, you'll like the book. The prose is servicable rather than sophisticated, and the characters sometimes suffer from having read the script rather than thinking things through on their own. While Unintended Consequences is a peculiar mix of history and fiction, Enemies Foreign and Domestic falls squarely into the fictional; there are none of the informative digressions that make Unintended Consequences accessible to people outside the gun culture who are not familiar with it.

It's a good read if you are in the target market. It's unlikely to convince anyone of anything they don't already believe, though.