...in the savage and dying world most of the survivors of the great war were either Flockers, who guarded their food, water and weapons jealously, or Neanderthals, who had totally reverted to barbarism. Falk was a Loner. He had to keep moving, looking. Looking for a woman, yes, but also for something more. In a ruined city, in the huge, dank, flooded caverns of a gigantic department store, Falk found his woman. And also something more......