This book is a pretty bad fictional novel but a reasonable "potential scenario, detailed, with a guide for survival" for an economic collapse and subsequent societal breakdown in the US. Not the stupid "zombie hordes where all law and order immediately breaks down and preppers burn through cases of ammo on their AR-15s", but plausible reductions in government programs, paralysis, and consequences.

The protagonists (and presumably author) are fairly far right, Christian, "traditional" types, which may not appeal to everyone, but it's a solid book in terms of a potential scenario and how one would see it emerging and deal with it. There are sections where the narrative is broken by a character explaining technical details and facts in a way intended for the reader's benefit, but that's probably why most people read the book.

It doesn't exactly end a a cliffhanger, but there's no real resolution, so the trilogy is probably an all-or-nothing read. ( )