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The decision to default on the country's massive national debt, followed by a rogue nuclear attack on Washington, DC, and abetted by the forces of factionalism, splits the United States into a clutch of warring regions led by strong men with private armies. Granville James Corbin--"Granny" to his friends and enemies--uses the U.S. breakup to build a personal fortune in the new markets for environmental cleanup, state funding lotteries, and electric power pools. He undertakes an adventurous war in Mexico and, when a political rival decides to outlaw him, returns to the States to settle an old score. Corbin eventually defeats the strongest army on the continent and reunites the nation in the role of First Citizen. The story is told from Corbin's own first-person chronicles, with commentary by his bodyguard and henchman, the renegade Billy Birdsong. It is the early 1990s, and the United States has finally decided to repudiate the national debt, abolish taxes, and more. Small-scale military affairs are left to the private sector. The new fighting forces are called Gentlemen Volunteers. There is only one law: They may not enter the U.S. under arms. But of course they do under the leadership of James Corbin, First Citizen, First American Caesar 1987, mass market paperback original edition, Baen, NY. 373 pages. The time is the early 1990's. The American government has finally found a way to deal with the national repudiate it. They've also done something no federal taxes. This science fiction novel also presents our new fighting are you ready for this? They are called our Gentlemen Volunteers. When First Citizen James Corbin learns he is to be impeached on trumped up charges, he decides to lead his army, the Gentlemen Volunteers, back into the unarmed U.S