What do you think our most dangerous domestic enemy is? Al-Kata and the Taliban hiding in every mosque? Drug gangs and their Mexican warlords? Christian doomsday cults in the military grabbing our nukes? Doubtless, Homeland Security is watching all of these, yet our children are getting seduced by the most respectable threat of all: role-playing gamers!

They buy their swords at Renaissance Fairs and sharpen them later. They'll have to practice desensitizing themselves to killing innocent people, so watch out. When the food riots start and the government announces bankruptcy, then they'll strike. The world is nothing but a Dungeons and Dragons game to them, and the only way to survive is to kill everyone else. Since city dwellers will starve anyway, they'll speed up the process by knocking out the electric power grid. Some will stay in the cities to rule over the survivors. Other groups will flee the cities to places of refuge, killing anyone on the way who crosses their path.

They have a secret cell network called "Salvage." They use graffiti and the old analog TV frequencies to communicate news and disseminate their guidebook. “The Book” reads like a gamer's manual, with new jargon to make it easy to kill people. It suggests new names and costumes, to adopt new identities without human compassion. And whenever an obviously bad act is done, the standard phrase is, "What you did was right."

Thanks to the author for exposing this ultimate menace. It will take years to sort it out. What's that you say? I've misinterpreted the author's intent? Perhaps I should have read his interview in the back of the book, conducted by the publisher. So ... that's NOT his purpose? Oh my ... ~~ M.L. Fringe