'Set concurrently in the near future, but on opposite sides of the globe, they tell two halves of the same story. 'I like Armstrong's two novels a lot,' writes Kaminski. THREE NOVELS: PRAIRIE FIRE, TAMING THE DRAGON, and THE CARHULLAN ARMY Frank Kaminski takes an in depth look a two novels by Mud City Press' Dan Armstrong, PRAIRIE FIRE and TAMING THE DRAGON, and one by Sarah Hall, THE CARHULLAN ARMY. 'Rarely in any kind of book, fiction or not, do we get this kind of multi-layered overview of the lines of power, threading down from the board rooms of the corporate elite through the halls of Congress and the trading floors of the commodities markets, all the way down to the men and women who tend the land and feed the world.' Read online review. ' Prairie Fire is an action-packed suspense story that is both great fun to read and, perhaps more importantly, a serious appraisal of American agriculture and the international grain market,' writes reviewer Peter Eberhardt. It reflects careful research and analysis of a modern-day systemic problem in the global food system, and provides a strong political statement that questions the organization of our most important industry as well as our basic values.' PRAIRIE FIRE REVIEWED BY PROGRESSIVE VOICE OF THE GREAT PLAINS 'The Progressive Voice of the Great Plains,' Prairie Fire Newspaper, out of Lincoln, Nebraska, has recently published a glowing review of Mud City Press editor Dan Armstrong's novel PRAIRIE FIRE. NACTA REVIEW OF PRAIRIE FIRE 'PRAIRIE FIRE,' writes Charles Francis from the Department of Agronomy at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, 'is more than a totally engaging story that captivates the reader as if it were a Dan Brown suspense adventure.

DAN ARMSTRONG INTERVIEWED ON PEAK MOMENT TV The Yuba Girls found PRAIRIE FIRE provacative enough to travel to Oregon to interview Dan about his novel. 'That's the beginning of PRAIRIE FIRE,' he continues, 'and while it takes you back to the thrilling days of yester-year–when farmers all across America rose up and formed, out of necessity, the National Grange of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry!–it also pulls you hard into the crisis felt by small and medium-sized farmers today.' Read this review in the California Grange Newsletter. Reviews of Prairie Fire CALIFORNIA GRANGE REVIEW OF PRAIRIE FIRE 'What happens when enough grain farmers across America, especially the Midwest, decide that the convoluted structure of the economic system between the small, independent family farmer and the end-user is unfair?' asks Lanny Cotler in a review of PRAIRIE FIRE in the California Grange's Newsletter.

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