page_title: Patriots (novel series)
section_title: Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse
hierarchical_section_title: Patriots (novel series) / Sequels / Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse
caption_attribution_description: English: Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse book cover
context_page_description: The Patriots novel series is a five-novel series by survivalist novelist and former U.S. Army officer and blogger, James Wesley Rawles. It is followed by his Counter-Caliphate Chronicles novel series.
  Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse, the first book in the series, was first distributed as shareware in 1995 and first published in paperback in 1998. It was updated and re-published in paperback 2009, and then in hardback in 2012. In one week of April 2009, shortly after its release, it was ranked #6 in Amazon.com's overall book sales rankings, which was attributed by the Library Journal to the book's appeal to "a small but vociferous group of people concerned with survivalism".
  Set in the near future midst hyperinflation and a catastrophic global economic collapse, Patriots tells the story of a group of survivalists that flee riots and chaos in metropolitan Chicago to a survivalist retreat that they have prepared near Bovill, Idaho.
context_section_description: Much of Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse takes place in the Four Corners region, specifically in and around Bloomfield and Farmington, New Mexico, although the book's climax takes place in and near Prescott, Arizona and several sub-plots take place as far away as Afghanistan. The cover artwork was created by Tony Mauro, Jr.
  On its release day, October 4, 2011, Survivors  rose to #2 in Amazon's overall book sales ranks and #1 in their action-adventure category.  On October 23, 2011, it was listed at #3 in the New York Times bestseller list in the fiction hardback category. Rawles and Survivors were the centerpiece of a Vancouver Sun article by Kim Murphy about the American Redoubt movement that was run by dozens of newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. A review in The New American magazine was positive, summarizing: "In short, Rawles' Survivors is well worth reading; astute readers may find themselves making notes of passages pertaining to survival planning which will be worth returning to once one has finished reading the novel." Marvin Olasky of World (magazine) called Survivors "...not as well-written as some articles Rawles has penned"
  Rawles uses an unusual contemporaneous approach to writing sequels. Rather than the traditional formula of following the same group of characters farther into the future, he instead uses a novel sequence method that portrays different characters in different geographic regions, but in the same near-future timeframe as in Patriots. In his Introductory note to  Survivors, Rawles stated: "Unlike most novel sequels, the storyline of Survivors is contemporaneous with the events described in my previously-published novel Patriots.  Thus, there is no need to read it first (or subsequently), but you'll likely find it entertaining."
  The first of several translations of Survivors was released in May 2014. This was a Spanish edition, titled Supervivientes.  It was translated by Ernesto Rubio Garcia and published by La Factoria De Ideas, in Madrid, Spain. ISBN 978-8490182734. A Kindle edition in Spanish was also released in May, 2014. Additional translations into French, German, Russian, Bulgarian, Portuguese, and Korean are planned.
caption: Cover of the first edition of Survivors.
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