349pp, 250g. Spine, cover creases, edgewear, remainder mark, top corner of feps clipped. The world blew out in 2001. Vast areas of what was the United States lie beneath an umbrella of noxious dust and radioactive debris, a mantle of destruction drawn over a land of doom. But there were survivors, struggling to overxome a dark new age of plague, ratiation sickness, barbarism and madness. Out of the ruins come Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors, whose odyssey of discovery takes them in search of other pockets of civilization.