The world is falling apart. Terrorists spark a worldwide oil and gas crisis while imports grind to a halt. Europe and Britain are erupting into chaos as food runs out and desperate people take matters into their own hands.











As the government begins to seal off rioting parts of the city, Corporal Harry Miller takes an offered discharge to get his sister and her kids to safety. But he’s not fast enough. Trapped in the city with a rag-tag collection of ordinary citizens, Harry struggles to create a small pocket of stability - a place to ride out the coming confrontation between rioters and the Army, and save themselves from complete annihilation.


Vance Huxley lives out in the countryside in Lincolnshire, England. He has spent a busy life


working in many different fields – including the building and rail industries, as a workshop


manager, trouble‐shooter for an engineering firm, accountancy, cafe proprietor, and graphic


artist. He also spent time in other jobs, and is proud of never being dismissed, and only


once made redundant.


Eventually he found his Noeline, but unfortunately she died much too young. To help with the


aftermath, Vance tried writing though without any real structure. As an editor and beta readers


explained the difference between words and books, he tried again.


Now he tries to type as often as possible in spite of the assistance of his cats, since his legs no


longer work well enough to allow anything more strenuous. An avid reader of sci‐fi, fantasy and


adventure novels, his writing tends towards those genres.