The acclaimed author of The Ransom of Black Stealth One offers the first book in the Quantrill trilogy—a thriller set in the near future. As the Soviet menace collapses, China and India join forces and launch a devastating nuclear attack on America. And in the lawless anarchy that follows, one young man learns the hard way that the man most likely to survive is the one who learns to kill...

The exciting sequel to Systemic Shock. The nuclear war against China and India has left America victorious, but devastated, and a strong and survival-minded government has seized control of what's left.

Ted Quantrill is a human weapon. He has been a soldier, a commando, and, finally a hit man for the United States government. But a man can grow tired of killing, and Quantrill has turned his back on the past. Here in the rugged wilderness of the Southwest, he plans to make a new life for himself and the woman he hopes to marry. But yesterday won't let him alone. To preserve his life, he'll have to kill again. And his target is a good friend, as well-trained and deadly as he is...