by R. A. Lingenfelter (Author) International Award-Winning Series by R.A. Lingenfelter. The first three books in the Small Sacrifices Series in one book. End of Crows, Flight of Sparrows and Rise of Falcons. Readers are comparing the series to: Red Dawn, Divergent, Hunger Games and George Orwell's 1984.  The Revolutionary War of 2026 was a hard lesson. The citizens of the United States lost to the tyrannical government known as the Dominion. What used to be the beautiful Colorado mountains is now a hiding place for the Crows; citizens who were able to escape the Dominion's reach. The Dominion punishes those who disobey. PIMs, known as personal identification microchips, are surgically implanted into the mandible of humans at birth, and programmed to detonate should someone decide to rise against the Dominion's laws.