Jess and Storey are longtime friends on a hunting trip in a secluded area of Maine, a state with many secluded areas. When they return to civilization they find that civilization seems to have evaporated. Town after town has been burned to the ground. Everyone seems to be trying to kill everyone else. The two men don't know one side from the other. Both sides seem to want to kill them.
Then they find a five-year-old girl and decide to try to return her to her parents, whatever the cost.
The novel often fails the believability test. Why would Maine, of all states, secede from the union? Why would either side want to destroy entire villages? Why would loving parents abandon their daughter? Once one puts such questions aside, the novel becomes compulsive reading.
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