The Flight of the Barbarous Relic offers an alternative to teach readers about the Fed

For readers who engage in fiction, or mainly in fiction, content about central banking and how it really works won’t reside atop many of their to-be-read lists. As a fiction writer and (primarily) a fiction reader, I can attest that I often absorb nonfiction books about history and economics very, very slowly.

I’m currently making my way through PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order by Drs. Robert and Jill Malone, and I know a nonfiction book has caught my attention when I’m bull-rushing through 20-30 pages per day. That may not sound like much to the average nonfiction reader, but for me, I’m breaking personal records. 

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I also have The Flight of the Barbarous Relic by George Ford Smith on my nightstand and have been attacking roughly 40 pages a day, meaning I’ll have the review up next week. And while I have (slowly) read books like End the Fed by Ron Paul in the past, fiction readers would more likely gravitate toward Ford’s work and as a bonus, gain a little knowledge on the Fed’s shortcomings.

Seeking the truth through fiction

As a libertarian living in a world in which there are very few good works of fiction with such themes, I’m often relegated to seeking them as part of an overall read. For example, I’ve crossed many in the Harry Potter series and other works, like World of the Gateway, Beyond, and the Resistance Series, though the latter two do fall into the libertarian sphere.

Ditto for George Ford Smith’s work which, though action-packed with an actual storyline, provides a more entertaining outlet on what the Fed really is, how it operates, and what makes it the real cause behind inflation, even if those operating it like to pretend otherwise.

It reminds me a lot of Tracy Lawson’s Resistance Series and Kate L. Mary’s Beyond Trilogy, which focuses more on the right to self-ownership while telling a compelling tale through four and three books, respectively.

While knowing one’s natural right to self-ownership is undeniably important, understanding how the Fed truly works against those it purports to “help” is a skill a lot of people fall short in. Survey 100 people in town on what the Fed does, and I guarantee you will get several different answers, with a contingent likely recognizing its inflationary tactics that destroy purchasing power.

Ditto for the origin of money, something Murray Rothbard sums up quite well in his book What Has Government Done to Our Money.

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