Manny Roca is severely injured and holed up in an abandoned boy’s academy with Cookie and Dweasel. His only incentive to survive his great hardship is to bring retribution to the Global Alliance, the occupying world military force in a world thrown into brutal suppression, government labor camps, desperation, and isolation in a complete news blackout. They meet Hannah, a tall, slender, teen who is strong, clever, strangely agile—and dangerous. They discover hidden computers with a treasure trove of forbidden truth about the Carthenogens, a superior race from another planet that has seized control of Earth and all information. How will these four survive the winter, let alone wage war from their isolated small town hide-out?