title: The Fall: A Country on Fire
author:  Clifford Reopel 
description: Clifford Reopel was born in Western Massachusetts. He moved to North Carolina in 1993 with his parents and brother. After graduating high school, he earned an associate's degree in architecture from Forsyth Technical Community College. He is currently working as a crew chief for his father's company. In his spare time, he likes watching movies and reading Tom Clancy novels. He wrote The Fall: A Country on Fire because he was interested in developing a back story to all the books and movies that reference the fall of the United States. He wanted to shed light in his own way on how the United States could fall. This is his debut novel. He currently lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with his wife and son.
zlib_text: THE FALL
  
  BURNING SKIES
  
  BOOK 1
  
  DEVON C FORD
  
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  Copyright © Devon C Ford 2018
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
  or introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any
  means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without
  prior written permission from the publisher.
  
  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and
  incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously, and any resemblance to any person or persons, living or dead, is
  entirely coincidental. No affiliation is implied or intended to any
  organisation or recognisable body mentioned within.
  
  Published by Vulpine Press in the United Kingdom in 2018
  
  Cover by Claire Wood
  
  ISBN: 978-1-910780-89-3
  
  www.vulpine-press.com
  
    
  
  Dedicated to SJ, my military advisor: a man of bountiful knowledge and
  fearsome facial hair.
  
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  NOW I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYE