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Desperate people are making Hard Times even harder, are Wayne and his family prepared? After the stock market crashed events seemed to turn rather desperate quickly in the quiet Southwestern community where Wayne Cook, his friends, and family have elected to live. In this second installment in The Collapse Series Wayne and crew will find it becoming more and more desperate as the market collapse triggers more and more chaos. Is the compound truly ready? Good Men have hard choices to make, will they be moral?

Jeff Stone and his team of Praetorian Security contractors are marking time on counterpiracy duty aboard a freighter in the Gulf of Aden when the boredom ends abruptly. A major US base on the Horn of Africa is overrun in a well-coordinated terrorist attack, and those base personnel who survive are taken hostage. With the world economy tanked and most of the Western militaries dangerously thinned, the Praetorian operators find themselves to be the hostages' only hope of rescue.