Col'm

by D. Krauss

Twenty years after Tu’an, Collier Rashkil runs an intelligence network out of an underground church in the northern Shenandoah Valley. A hundred miles or so south, Henry Price runs a smuggling ring. Neither is aware the other survived the horrific last stand of the Ghosts. Life is hard: Collier is proscribed; Henry is one step ahead of arrest and execution, yet both have a measure of contentment. But then an old enemy confronts Collier as a new enemy attacks Henry, and a war already lost threatens to reignite and finish them, their families, and what’s left of the country.

354 pages, Paperback

Published September 8, 2017

About the author

D. Krauss currently resides in the Shenandoah Valley. He's been a cottonpicker, a sod buster, a surgical orderly, the guy who paints the little white line down the middle of the road, a weatherman, a gun-totin’ door-kickin’ lawman, a layabout, and a bus driver, in that order.

Reviews

[Papaphilly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Col'm is another gem from D. Krauss. This is book three in his Partholon series and it is excellent. Col'm may be read as a stand alone because there is enough back ground to give you the picture so you are not lost. However, read all three and you will not have missed on one of the best military science fiction books I have read in years.

Col'm picks up 25 years after the ending of Tu'an and the Communist won the civil war for America. Nothing works, the country is not making it, and a small group is trying to keep the flame of freedom lit from within waiting for their chance. D. Krauss examines how underground freedom groups survive in a totalitarian state. One as a religious church and one as a smuggler. One very black and white and one seeing much more gray areas, yet both at their core, very much the same. The synchronicities are amazing and the triggering event is just too real to think as a novel.

Plenty of action to suit even the hardest action junky, but the internal dialogues of why freedom matters is not to be missed and gives this novel (the entire series to be honest) a depth not usually seen. Col'm is at its heart about loss and moving forward despite that loss. It is about maintaining the quest despite the devastating price and keeping that quest when no one else understands. D. Krauss Criticism of government, lack of discipline, loss of honor, and generational differences are worn on his sleeve. So are commitment, love of family, honor, freedom, and sacrifice.

This is an excellent read and make no mistake, you will not want to miss Col'm.