— To my real wife: I hope this book turns out to be fiction. I suspect it won't, but I'd love to be wrong. But in the meantime, I'm a man, and a man takes care of his family. I did. I will forever be proud of that, even if I wasn't understood at the time.
Glen Tate has a front row seat to the corruption in government and writes the 299 Days series from his first-hand observations of why a collapse is coming and predictions on how it will unfold. Much like the main character in the series, Grant Matson, the author grew up in a rural and remote part of Washington State. He is now a forty-something resident of Olympia, Washington, and is a very active prepper. “Glen” keeps his real identity a secret so he won’t lose his job because, in his line of work, being a prepper and questioning the motives of the government is not appreciated.