Seeking a Sane Society — Albert A. Correia

The Arthur family was finally able to get a peaceful night's sleep on beautiful Catalina Island... or so they thought. Confronted the next day by demands for "taxes," they, and all the residents of Catalina, learn that a former state legislator - who is also a former state prison inmate - has installed himself as governor of California. * * * * * Catalina Island and the small Central California town of Tracy are among the few habitable areas still in existence, but every day is a new challenge and their residents learn that must fight to survive. Each area has to find its own unique way of combating an illegal government and its "militia" consisting of a cutthroat gang of hardened criminals.