Publisher's Synopsis
Charlie Collins has been many things since the dead began to rise. Survivor, failure, friend, leader, target, and some would say a hero. But now he's something new. Homeless.The counsel, having been exiled from their home, sit in the watchtower, observing Jericho, the new leader, as he destroys everything they had spent the last four months building. Charlie still isn't sure if they are watching their old home in order to make sure they are capable of surviving on their own, or if they are watching for an opening to take back what is theirs.Then there's the New American Army. An armored column with the muscle of a tank backing them up. A group who have been moving from settlement to settlement, taking supplies and conscripts as they go. They have arrived in Johnson City looking for two things. Supplies and Charlie Collins. The one man who Drecker, the army's leader, has labeled to be almost as dangerous as he is. With their old home and the lives of their friends in danger. Charlie and the others must find a way to defeat an army that is almost untouchable. To complicate matters further he must work hand in hand with a group of survivors from his past who want him dead as much as they want to see the army destroyed.With everything on the line, Charlie's fractured mind begins to crack further under the pressure. The ghost of Jim and the memory of his mentor, Jack, both appearing to him in a battle to usher in, or stop, his decent into madness.In a war that will break friendships and end lives, Charlie has to decide how far he is willing to go to win this conflict, and which of the counsel members he's willing to walk away from in order to do what he feels needs to be done.
