There are books that you read and forget. This is the other kind. Published 30 years ago, the world it predicts is still a reasonable projection. Shortages, ecological collapse, unsustainable economies, extreme wealth and poverty, and those who would fix our problems, if only they were given power. I still remember this book, 30 years on, and it still gives me chills.
It starts with this preface:
A Message from Hiding
There are four of us; we are fugitives. How we came to be such, and the extraordinary truth we have uncovered on our journey, are the subjects of this book.
We started out to destroy a politician. Certainly we did not expect to end up on the run. We’re a political and journalistic family. Our intention was to ruin one of the greatest and most terrible political figures in human history. To be frank, we were foolish enough to take on Gupta Singh. We haven’t destroyed him at all. Very much the contrary, in the past six months his Depopulationist Manifesto has been adopted by eight new countries and is under consideration right now by the United States Congress. And we are desperate.
We have changed Singh, though. Sooner or later, the world will discover what we have done.
He is as fierce as his name implies. We spent months escaping from him. Now we are against the wall, as it were. But we have found something in this secret place, something that could revise the whole human future, and this book is an attempt to share it with you.
We must begin, though, at the beginning. The reason we tried to oppose the Depopulationist Movement has to do with our own cultural roots—western, humanitarian and Christian.
Our story starts four years ago, in Denver, during those black November days of 2021, when a city was suffocating.
It begins with a hero’s death, and the pain of a father’s loss.