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.
“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
