By Catherine Austin Fitts

It was a very strong recommendation from a very fine Solari Report subscriber that inspired me to read Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars. Here is the book’s description:

Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life–something like his old life–exists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return–not enough fuel to get him home–following the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But what he encounters and what he must face–in the people he meets, and in himself–is both better and worse than anything he could have hoped for.

It has become fashionable in certain circles to hope for a general “collapse” of the economy. If you want to understand why that is not something that you want; why that is not a scenario that would clear things out for the better, this is the book for you. Collapse is a gruesome picture, in this case communicated by a gifted writer who can touch you in profound and moving ways.

Peter Heller The Dog Stars