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“A post-apocalyptic western that is equal parts Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry.”

-Jill Gibson, Editor Los Alamos National Laboratory National Security Magazine


“Balman still writes like a journalist who spent years reporting war, genocide and the attempted rehabilitation of extremists. He spends little time on frivolous prose, which is why the book can feel eerie at times: almost like a news dispatch from the near future.”

-Eliza Dubose, The Eagle



Seventh Flag Trilogy


A harrowing follow-up to award-nominated novel, “Seventh Flag,” radicalism and white supremacy take center stage in “Murmuration.”


A sweeping work of historical fiction, “Seventh Flag” is a Micheneresque parable that traces the arc of radicalization in modern Western Civilization – reaffirming what it means to be an American in a dangerously divided nation.

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