What began as a technothriller continues as high adventurein the newly savage ruins of civilizationxA In late Daybreak a movement of post-apocalyptic eco-saboteursxA smashed modern civilization to its knees In the losing hopeless struggle against DaybreakHeather OGrainne a one-time minor bureaucrat and former Federal agent rose to become a vital leader in the struggle to restore civilization That story was told in Directive xANow Heathers story continues in Daybreak ZeroxA In the summer of she leads a tiny organization of scientists spies scouts entrepreneurs engineers dreamers and daredevils based in Pueblo Colorado Both of the almost-warring governments of the United States have charged them with an all but impossible mission find a way to put the world back togetherxABut Daybreaks triumph has flung the world back centuries in technology politics andculturexA Pro-Daybreak Tribals openly celebrate ending the world as we know itxA Army regiments have to fight their way in and out of PennsylvaniaThe Earths environment is saturated with plastic-devouring biotes and electronics-corroding nanoswarmxA A leftover Daybreak device drops atom bombs from the moon on any outpost of the old civilization it can spotxAConfined to her base in Pueblo to give birth to her first child Heather recruits and monitors a coterie of tech wizards tough guys and modern-day frontier scouts a handful of heroes to patrol a continentxA All the news is badTribals have overrun Indiana and IllinoisThe last working aircraft carrier sits helplessly out in the Indian Ocean not daring to come closer to landThe crash of one of the last working airplanes kills a vital industrialistTribals try to force appeasement on the Provi government while the Temper government faces a rebellion of religious fanaticsSeventeen states are lost to the Tribals as California drifts into secession and hereditary monarchyEverywherexA Provis and Tempers lurch toward civil war xAHeathers agents may be brave smart and daring but can they be enoughxA For the sake of everything from her newborn son to her dying nationxA can she forge them into a the weapon that can at last win the world back from the overwhelming malevolent force of DaybreakxA xAHer success or failure may change everything for the next thousand years beginning fromxA Daybreak Zero.
