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Andrew Klavan's If We Survive....A Political Morality Tale

      Andrew Klavan has started writing YA fiction and for a Christian publishing house. While this may be a bad move for some writers, Klavan has navigated the move very well. In truth, Klavan is a fine popular contemporary novelist. The extra benefit of this enjoyable read is that it may indeed have an additional application in light of our political and economic times. Klavan is interviewed by  National Review online  and speaks insightfully about moral reality and the universe.      The plot line is simple as it tells of  four teens who become trapped in a Central American country as a communist revolution unfolds. There is a typical range of characters, including one of the teens who is sympathetic for the revolutionaries and has the opportunity to see behind the curtain and get a glimpse of what really motivates the revolutionaries he has read about, including some of their manifestos. One political lesson is that if it is a heavy handed government bent on controlling the peo