A decade has passed since the nuclear nightmare of the Great War brought American to the brink of destruction. Out of the smouldering ashes, Ben Raines has emerged to build a new society in this once proud land. But in this hellish new world there is evil lurking, evil that will stop at nothing to destroy the dream of a new America.

Leaving a small rear-guard detachment at their home base in Louisiana, Ben Raines and his rebel army begin an overland expedition to New York City - the armed Hell on Earth of the cannibalistic mutants known as the Night People. For Raines and his rebels, it means clearing sky-scrapers floor by floor and stalking an endless labyrinth or underground tunnels - a perilous search-and-destroy mission that will decide the fate of freedom's cause.