Help me find a book. . .

[The Professor]

Ok, this one's been bugging me for days.

A long time ago, let's say between 1995 and 2010, someone wrote a book about the US being invaded.  If I recall correctly, this was a major mainstream title carried in bookstores well before the the TEOTWAWKI issue became more commonplace.  I also think it was written by a well-known author, one more suited to writing political thrillers.

Some things I remember from the book (in no particular order):

When it was determined where one of the primary invasion points was going to be (Florida?  Mississippi? Alabama?), the military evacuated the citizenry and a point was made about how they were cutting down the street signs in towns to make navigation by the invading forces more difficult.

Once the invasion began, a special forces unit infiltrated one of their bivouac areas and planted remote- or time-release poison gas mines to kill the troops in their bunks when they slept.

One of the Special Forces, perhaps the main character, was escaping and evading just ahead of the invading troops when he came across two old guys hiding in a camoflaged tree stand.  When he confronted them, they told him they were too old to run and wanted to kill some of the invaders, hopefully slowing down their advance.  IIRC, the character gave them a couple of grenades and wished them luck.

That's all I can really remember.  Does any of this ring anyone's bells?

The Professor

[CharlesH]

I can’t recall a book like that.  But interestingly I do recall from that time period some fringe groups being convinced the UN was going to invade us.  They pointed to mysterious colored stickers on the back of stop signs as ways for the different invasion groups to follow their routes to various assembly areas.  The period you think this book comes from seems about right to have been playing on that theme.

[LvsChant]

The description doesn't ring a bell for me... have you perused the wikipedia list?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction

[The Professor]

The description doesn't ring a bell for me... have you perused the wikipedia list?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction

Yeah, sadly, it's not on that list.  Like I said, this was by a well-known writer at the time.  I don't know if it would fall into "apocalyptic" fiction.

<sigh> This is why I seldom give books away.  I always knew this would happen.

The Professor

[Gamer]

I don't recall the book but will google around and let you know if I find anything.
Meanwhile I did find this random uncaptioned pic on the net..

[Bradbn4]

I have poked at google book search and amazon for one my old time fav sci fi books.

Never had much luck finding it at all on those search engines.

I remember buying the book I think at a train station way back when in a vending machine.  First time I ever saw books for sale that way.

SciFi; prison planet, with outposts for trading goods for support to the prisoners.  While weapons were sold, only air rifles, etc. that were designed to wear out were offered.  After a long period of time the guards have abandon the planet.  The former prisoners break into the guard post to determine what has happened.

[Gamer]

..A long time ago, let's say between 1995 and 2010, someone wrote a book about the US being invaded..

Invaded by who exactly, or are we supposed to guess haha..
Meanwhile here's a bunch of invasion titles from the net-

The Enemy Within by Larry Bond: Iranian Terrorist disguised as Neo-Nazi’s launch attacks all over America

 Against All Enemies by Harold Coyle: Military VS Idaho Militia

 Prayers For The Assassin by Robert Ferrigno: 2040. The USA is divided between Christian South and the Islamic Republic of America.

 Darkest Days by Stan Gallon

 The Third World War: August 1985 by Gen. Sir John Hackett: A future history written by a NATO commander during the Cold War postulating on what a conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact would look like.

 The Untold Story: The Third World War by Gen. Sir John Hackett: Hackett’s follow up to the above

 Team Yankee by Harold Coyle: Coyle takes Hackett’s WWIII scenario and writes about the experience of a group of American Tankers.

 Dragonfire by Humphrey Hawksley: India goes to war with Pakistan and China. The USA, Europe and Japan back India, Russia backs China.

 Breakdown by William W. Johnston: 2nd American Revolution

 Defiance: An American Novel by Oliver Lange: Guerrilla resistance to a Soviet invasion

 Clash of Eagles: A Novel of the Nazi Occupation of America: Alternate History. Guerrilla resistance to the Third Reich in the Eastern USA.

 Arc Light by Eric L. Harry: WWIII and America getting nuked

 America’s Last Days by Douglas Mackinnon: Coup d’état involving the military and FBI.

 Invasion by Eric L. Harry: Chinese Invasion of America

 Ian Slaters WWIII novels originally started as a Cold War scenario but he did a couple updates not that long ago dealing with modern scenarios. He also did the USA vs Militia series about a 2nd American Civil War.

 Under Siege by Stephen Coonts: See’s Washington DC devastated by Narco-Terrorism

 Jerry Aherns series The Survivalist

 Red Army and The War After Armageddon by Ralph Peters

 The Guardians

Tank War by Larry Steelbaugh

Countdown WWIII

End World

The Ashes

Mathew Bracken has a trilogy (Enemies Foreign and Domestic, Domestic Enemies: The Reconquesta, Foreign Enemies and Traitors)
 
Molon Labe by the psyedonomous Boston T. Party

Unintended Consequences by John Ross

Bruce Powe’s Killing Ground: The Canadian Civil War


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