When a militiamen begin roaming the United States and attacking government agencies, it will take the nation's finest and toughest civilian airmen to put an end to the homegrown insurgency. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan and his son Bradley vow to join the flight, but find themselves caught in a deadly game against a shadowy opponent.

As the stock markets crash and the U.S. Economy falls into a crippling recession, everything changes for newly elected president Kenneth Phoenix. A SWAT team is ambushed and radioactive materials are stolen - is the battle against the goverment about to be taken to a new deadliner level?

New York Times bestseller Dale Brown brings the battle home to explore a terrifying possibility - the collapse of the United States.