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Also by James Wesley, Rawles

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rawles, James Wesley.

Founders : a novel of the coming collapse / by James Wesley Rawles.—1st Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover ed.

p. cm.

1. Financial crises—Fiction. 2. Survival—Fiction. 3. Political fiction. 1. Title.

PS3568.A8437F68 2012

813'.54—dc23

2012013276

ISBN 978-1-4391-7282-7

ISBN 978-1-4391-7285-8 (eBook)