Distant for many years, Franklin in Pennsylvania and his step-brother Everon in Nevada are connected by a single link, their sister Cynthia. Enter The Nightmare: a nuclear bomb is detonated in New York. Banker, wife, mother, Cynthia lives in New York. The military has quarantined the city, its bridges destroyed, its tunnels blocked. Easterly winds have forced the bomb’s radiation cloud over Long Island. |