FIVE YEARS AFTER THE GREAT DEATH...

and throughout Britain small groups of survivors are banding together to relearn long-forgotten skills. Among them are the authoritarian National Unity Force, whose self-styled President, Arthur Wormley, now lives like a king in Windsor Castle; the Rat Pack, who live in the London Underground; the primitive capitalist community in the north whose leader is known simply as the Trader; and the Red Dragons, guerrillas dedicated to preventing the spread of NUF power to Wales.

In this gripping sequel to the first SURVIVORS novel, Peter Grant joins President Wormley's army after the shooting of his mother, Abby, and is caught in a political conflict that could mean the life or death of a reborn world.