Final Warning

About the Book

Final Warning, begun in 1994 and published in 2000, is set in the year 2010.  The world is under the jack boot of the totalitarian New World Way led by the United Nations.  The biggest and meanest security force is the Grassers, named for the attractive vegetation that covers much of the civilized world.  The Grassers also cover the world, but they are unattractive in the extreme.

In order to control population growth, people are put to death at age sixty, abortions are forced, and the sickness of pedophilia is legalized and encouraged.  But with boys only, not girls.  Girls are protected because they are identified with the goddess Gaia, the religious myth that undergirds the New World Way.  The mainline Christian denominations are forced to insinuate the Gaian rituals into all religious ceremonies, and religious leaders who would not cooperate are imprisoned.

The Larsons are a family of four - mother Paige, father John, fifteen year old Elaine and eight year old Robert.  We meet them as John is engaged in attending a government-mandated viewing of an Exhibit of Enlightenment, and the Larsons are deeply worried because their son, Robert, could be inducted into a camp run by pedophiles under the auspices of the government.

To avoid this, the Larsons decide to go on the run aided by  President Barbara Snell’s Chief of Staff, Morgan DeWitt.  As a nurse, Paige had met DeWitt during DeWitt’s stay at Norwood Hospital in the UN District of Massachusetts several years before.  They all head for the Bishop settlement along the Upper Priest River in Idaho to join DeWitt’s husband and daughter.  But before they can go, the Grassers grab John Larson for an interrogation and then extermination at Concord Jail.  Through the intervention of Irma, a fifty-nine year old drunk, John escapes their clutches to rejoin Paige and the children, and he and Irma kidnap a Grasser commander, Beth Parmenter.  Morgan DeWitt is forced to commit murder of a high government official in order to escape Washington, DC.

While the Larsons and DeWitt are engaged in the harrowing trip to Bishop, another episode is taking place in Jacksonville, Florida where the President’s son, the hated rebel Adam Snell, is holding a United States Senator and his Grasser cohort hostage.  Snell has been given some leeway over the years by the Grassers because his mother, as President of the United States is the supreme leader of the New World Way, and its most proficient mass murderer.  Parmenter is kicked out of the Grassers and, looking for action, ends up joining forces with Adam Snell in Jacksonville.

Snell and Parmenter escape and head for Bishop, killing a number of Grassers along the way.  Parmenter meets up again with the Larsons in Bishop and all join forces for the final battle with the Grassers that they all know must come.

As the Bishop settlement prepares for battle, a genetic breakthrough occurs at the Shaw Clinic in Minnesota.  President Snell is there to witness the unveiling of the Chimera known as A. Rabidia, part man, part rodent.  But better in many ways than either - smart, very fast, and very vicious.  A. Rabidia is the first among the one hundred of his fellows created at Shaw.  Led by A. Rabidia, all one hundred escape and, after winning a vicious battle with a Grasser force, make their way for the United Nations headquarters in New York and the White House in Washington, DC.

The Battle for Bishop in Idaho, between the Bishop settlement dwellers led by Adam Snell and the Grassers, takes place as the Rabidias approach their destinations.  The battle is short and bloody, with casualties on both sides.

Paige Larson and her son, Robert, along with the rest of the world - from Rome to Nigeria to Australia - experience a cataclysmic event that sets the New Way for the world.

Final Warning is an adventure story about a bleak near future that may be more likely than most would care to admit.  The novel has fe

About the Author

David L. Buhlman escaped to the relative freedom of New Hampshire a couple of years ago. About eight years ago he began to question the way things were going in the world. Things looked suspicious - federal government assaults at Waco and Ruby Ridge, numerous foreign military fiascos, the ascendancy of the New World Order, increasing taxes and inflation, a failed government education system, and so on. Buhlman investigated several of the claims from what the media calls the “right-wing” and found them to be true. The author of numerous letters to the editor and the creator of http://www.sheeplegate.com, Buhlman lives with his wife and two cats. Along with millions of other Americans, he commutes about fifteen hours a week in stop-and-go traffic. Buhlman’s goal is to break out of this routine and become full-time trouble to those who seek to control every aspect of existence.