Two years after the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together technologies they had once taken for granted. When word comes that most of the young people are to be drafted into an ""Army of National Recovery,"" town administrator John Matherson protests. So he's offered a deal: enter national service and the draft will be reduced. But the brutal suppression of a neighboring community under its new federal administrator suggests all is not as it should be with this burgeoning government. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
