The Last Centurion

I did not enjoy this book. It's the opposite of ‘politically correct' and uses a lot of foul language and hate speech. The author also chose to ignore grammar rules, presumably so the reader would think they were listening to a rough soldier. The events of this book take place in 2018 and the following few years. The focus of the book is on the military, with some talk of farming and politics. The only science fiction elements are a more potent form of the flu and a slightly cooler sun.

This book is not a story. It's written in the style of a soldier's memoir. It is a diatribe - a ranting monologue by an opinionated, close-minded, intolerant, racist bigot. (Note: I'm talking about the protagonist, not necessarily the actual author. I've never met the author. Perhaps these viewpoints are his too.) In the first 2 chapters almost every sentence is cluttered with military acronyms and abbreviations. Unexplained abbreviations continue through the rest of the book, but occasionally there are pages written in actual English instead of military jargon. I nearly threw the book across the room when the fictional author wished that he had assassinated the President of the United States. Seriously, no matter how much you might disagree with their decisions, the office deserves some respect. The guy telling his life story is a caricature of the ultimate conservative republican. Every racial group is presented as inferior to Anglo-saxons. Every foreign system of government and health care is supposedly inferior to the traditional American culture. Human caused climate change is presented as laughably impossible. Anything ‘organic' or ‘environmentally conscious' is denigrated.

The character in this story takes the attractive female refugees, and basically forces them to work and provide sexual favors in exchange for protection and food - and some of these females are less than 18 years old.