About the Book
An author who “excels at combining the tension of the chase with the
elements of science fiction,” John Barnes delivered a fascinating and
frightening scenario about the collapse of America’s political and
social infrastructure following the destruction of modern technology.
Now, the author of Directive 51 and Daybreak Zero continues his story of the wild postapocalyptic frontier — and humanity’s last desperate attempt to re-civilize their world…
For more than a year, Heather O’Grainne and her small band of heroes,
operating out of Pueblo, Colorado, have struggled to pull the United
States back together after it shattered under the impact of the event
known as Daybreak. Now they are poised to bring the three or four
biggest remaining pieces together, with a real President and Congress,
under the full Constitution again. Heather is very close to fulfilling
her oath, creating a safe haven for civilization to be reborn.
But other forces are rising too.
Some people like the new life better...
In a devastated, splintered, postapocalyptic United States, with
technology thrown back to biplanes, black powder, and steam trains, a
tiny band of visionaries struggles to re-create Constitutional
government and civilization itself, as a new dark age takes shape around them.
