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The Attack Kindle Edition

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“Could October 7 happen in America? Yes. And much worse. Forewarned is forearmed. Read Colonel K’s latest. Now!”

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Radio Host and National Security Strategist

“America is one giant soft target. Kurt’s narrators tell tales of the nightmare scenario open borders can bring.”

Jim Hanson, Author and Special Forces Veteran

From the author of the bestselling Kelly Turnbull People’s Republic series of action novels comes his latest thriller, THE ATTACK. Set in the very near future and ripped from today’s headlines, THE ATTACK is a terrifying novel that describes in frightening detail exactly how America’s enemies could launch a massive terrorist assault here at home. From the White House to the Middle East, from the blood-stained streets of America’s suburbs to the cockpit of a B-2 bomber that will initiate the first blow in America’s merciless vengeance, THE ATTACK blends vivid realism with stirring action.
With input from key military and counterterrorism experts, THE ATTACK tells the story of a cunning, implacable, and brutal enemy taking advantage of a confused and weak president to launch an assault that dwarfs Hamas’s strike on Israel. With a wide-open border and American law enforcement focused on churchgoers and parents attending schoolboard meetings, the jihadist enemy can pick the time and place for its deadly attack. The only things standing in its way are the courage of America’s brave first responders and military, as well as regular citizens who are caught up in the bloodshed and are forced to fight back.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CR1N7R8T
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 8, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Kurt Schlichter

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Kurt Schlichter is a trial lawyer, and a retired Army infantry colonel with a degree from the Army War College who writes twice a week as a Senior Columnist for Townhall.com. His dystopian conservative action novels include "People's Republic," "Indian Country," "Wildfire,” “Collapse” and “The Split.” His second non-fiction book "Militant Normals" came out in October 2018, and "The 21 Biggest Lies About Donald Trump (And You)" came out in July 2020. His next book from Regnery, “We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America,” was released on July,12, 2022.

Kurt was personally recruited by Andrew Breitbart in 2009 to write for Big Hollywood. Kurt is a senior columnist at Townhall where he writes three time a week. His brutal and hilarious Twitter feed has over 460,000 followers.

Kurt is often on the air as an on-screen commentator and as a guest on nationally syndicated radio programs discussing political, military and legal issues, including Fox News, Fox Business, HLN, CNN (Well, maybe not anymore), the Hugh Hewitt Show, the Dennis Miller Show, Geraldo, the Greg Garrison Show, the John Phillips Show, the Tony Katz Radio Spectacular, the Snark Factor, and the Larry O'Connor Show, among others.

As a stand-up comic for several years, he has gathered a large and devoted following in the world of social media for his amusing and often biting conservative commentary. Kurt is also a successful trial lawyer based in the Los Angeles area representing companies and individuals in matters ranging from routine business cases to confidential Hollywood and entertainment industry disputes and transactions. A member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which recognizes attorneys who have won verdicts in excess of $1 million, his litigation strategy and legal analysis articles regularly run in such legal publications such as the Los Angeles Daily Journal and California Lawyer.

Kurt is a 1994 graduate of Loyola Law School, where he was a law review editor. He majored in Communications and Political Science as an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego, where he also edited the conservative student paper California Review while writing a regular column in the student humor paper the Koala. He also drank a lot of Coors.

Kurt rose to the rank of Army infantry colonel on active duty and in the California Army National Guard. He wears the silver "jump wings" of a qualified paratrooper and commanded the 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry Regiment. A veteran of both the Persian Gulf War and Kosovo, as well as the Los Angeles riots, the Northridge earthquake and the 2007 San Diego fires mobilizations, he is a graduate of the Army's Combined Arms Staff Service School, the Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College, where he received a master of Strategic Studies degree.

He loves military history, red meat and the Second Amendment. His favorite caliber is .45.

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As a retired intelligence officer, I recommend!
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As a retired intelligence officer, I recommend!
Just finished the intro and chapter one... I'm already hooked.Scary truth presented in an, after the event, novel. As a retired intelligence officer, I recommend!
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Scott R. Krol
5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect title for the neighborhood reading club
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2024
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Action thriller? Horror? Political commentary?

Kurt Schlichter's latest novel, The Attack, has a premise that is both simple and timely. Thanks to being such a compassionate friend to the global community the United States has kept its borders wide open for years. Unfortunately, it turns out that among all the neurosurgeons, astrophysicists, and doggie daycare owners crossing over thousands of Iranian backed sleeper cells have also spread out across the country. Waiting for activation. Waiting to meet their seventy two virgins.

When activation arrives for three days the cells, along with their American sympathizers, spread death, destruction, and chaos. Nearly two hundred thousand Americans are killed.

The Attack is an oral history of those three days and the aftermath. For those not familiar with the style think of it this way, instead of following a few main characters through an overall story it is told via a series of vignettes. These vignettes each tell part of the overarching story, allowing a variety of perspectives and tales to be told. It's a brilliant method when done right, and Schlichter does it right.

Schlichter's writing is breezy and makes for a fast read. He's economical with his words yet still manages to paint memorably vivid scenes and interesting characters. While not technically an action novel you do have great scenes with urban gun battles, full spectrum warfare, and suburban butchery that gives Garth Ennis' Crossed series a bloody run. He even manages to work in some dark humor involving how pathetic our current leadership is, along with a few subtle pop culture references.

So is The Attack an action thriller? Yes. A story of unimaginable horror? Definitely. Political commentary? You betcha. What it's not though is non-fiction. At least not yet. The story it tells is one that is a very real possibility. Read it and pray it remains fiction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Terrifyingly Realistic ... And Quite Possible
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024
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I've read some of Schlichter's books and have enjoyed them. But this one tops them all because it's - as the saying goes - "... ripped from today's headlines".
Given the massive breach on the southern border of the United States allowing millions of illegal immigrants to enter our country, many of them males of military age, this is a work of fiction that's terrifyingly realistic. It's not difficult at all to imagine the scenario that's presented in The Attack, which is a coordinated attack on all of America, resulting in three days of sheer terror, thousands of deaths and injuries.
Schlichter is a clever writer and often inserts little anecdotes that make you chuckle unless you're a big fan of the current administration. But make no mistake about it: this is no comedy. It's extremely realistic. He's not only a former member of the military but he has a lot of connections in the intelligence and law enforcement communities and it shows. This book is littered with little details that make it all the more believable.
If this book doesn't send a chill up your spine and even a tear to your eye on some occasions, you haven't been paying attention to what's been happening the last several years.
Buy this book. It's just plain worth it. In fact, it's brilliant. And written in record time after the October 7 Gaza massacre. Unbelievable how he could write something this good that fast.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great warning
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2024
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This is a very well written and interesting book. The the story was told made this a very personal book. It makes you think about your own situation, the possibility is real.
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M. Briggs
5.0 out of 5 stars fascinating, informed, very well written
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2024
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i can’t wait to read the rest of kurt’s books. as of right now the “terrorist chatter” is high. very scary. too bad we have such poor democratic leadership
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Anna Erishkigal
4.0 out of 5 stars What if a "Hamas-like" attack were to happen in America?
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024
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This is an interesting, "World War Z" type jaunt into what it might look like if Hamas-like attacks were launched in the United States via our wide-open border. The story is told through "interviews" with different witnesses to the fictitious "events", ranging from civilians, to politicians, to terrorists, to terrorist-enablers, to radical students and leftists, to police and soldiers. If you've followed the attack in Israel, as well as terrorist attacks in other countries over the years, the hypthesized nationwide attack is entirely plausible and realistic.

I deducted one star because events in real-life Israel / Palestine have progressed beyond the initial justified response and it seems Netayanhu is determined to provoke World War III. It wasn't a problem with the writing -- I most likely agreed with the pro-IDF stories when they were written -- but reading that now -- it was like getting on an enjoyable ride in an amusement park, and then some random dude punches you in the face.

Overall, if you are worried about the border and want to know what an attack might look like, this book is good reading, and I still strongly recommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Two books in one
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2024
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This is a first rate potboiler. Fast moving, riveting, well-written. Fans of Mickey Spillane will love it.

It is also a sober warning that an October 7 style terror attack could happen here.

Throw in some sly humour and the book deserves five stars.
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Bob
5.0 out of 5 stars Scary, but riveting
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2024
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I read this book, and the relation to present reality was prescient, before I read this book, I already had the belief that we would be attacked by some of the "illegals " allowed into the country, but not to the scale envisioned by the Author. Very sobering, I hope this book doesn't become reality, but the possibility is there.
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Token
5.0 out of 5 stars Kurt Schlichter knocks it out of the park again.
Reviewed in Canada on January 11, 2024
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This is a great book, and a tough read. It's not that it isn't well-written and thought-provoking...it's so thought-provoking, and terrifying, I had to take breaks between chapters as the images and implications it presents are all too disturbingly real. The picture of vulnerability and complacency in America [and certainly elsewhere] he presents is something I think we all understand at an unconscious level, but Schlichter puts it all together in a graphic package that shows what happens when an evil enemy takes full, murderous advantage of it. This isn't 'just a novel'...it's a threat evaluation that we, and our political class, need to hear.
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Maria C. Maynulet
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reading
Reviewed in Spain on April 18, 2024
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It could happen so easily
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martin sigley
5.0 out of 5 stars Realistic?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2024
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Almost a prediction.
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JPMT
5.0 out of 5 stars Mass Terror Hits the US
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2024
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This extraordinary work covers an attack on the on the US on the lines of October 7 2023, scaled up to cover the much larger population. It describes the horror from a multitude of viewpoints ranging form victims through first responders to the military that retaliates.. I have lived in the US and found the characterisation of individuals, mostly regular folks, to be accurate.
The technical and operational details of the weapons and tactics of both attackers and defenders are accurarte, as are the details of the military response. Overall a remarkable achievement to produce this work in 3 months.
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Scott Osmond
4.0 out of 5 stars Too Close To A Likely Reality To Be Enjoyable
Reviewed in Australia on May 28, 2024
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A good thriller needs to be believable but needs to be just unlikely enough to be enjoyed. This however was too realistic and read more like a future history. Told from multiple points of view it describes 3 days of horror. Many of the events described have taken place so the political paralysis fitted well in to the narative. The brutality shown if anything was understated for anyone who has read how women and children have been treated by terrorists in the mideast. The chapter talking about pets was particularly hard to read. Just hope events described stay fiction.
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