In a not-too-distant future, the United States is slowly rotting from within, with revolutionaries and gangs forcing an authoritarian reaction from the government. Hogan's novel starts out in a world heading towards crisis.
Iona Alcott, get on a fast attack boat in the northern alliance state of Missouri and begin to descend down to the Mississippi into the deep south under the glowing ball of Aeon growing in the southern skies.James P. And so Max together with his Charlie recon squad of Bull, Ginvera Garza, Susanna Sorenson, Fred Saberhager and Dr. Xin Rhou, now President of the UNGP, appeals to Max Carver to go on one last mission to finally stop his old friend. The key to this compelling goal and securing the future of the planet, however, hinges on the newly formed UNGP getting full access to the Colony technology, as well as stopping the growing threat from the new lifeforms evolving deep in the Mississippi Delta. On her return, as perhaps the most famous person in the world as the discoverer of Aeon, she is nominated to become the new head of the United Nations Global Protectorate, tasked with the almost unbelievable goal of building a magnetic shield to protect Earth from the plasma wall of Aeon's detonation which will hit the planet in thirty years. Xin Rhou managed to escape the Antarctic continent with a prize greater than she could have imagined, but the cost of her victory was catastrophic even as she gets exactly what she wanted. Strange stories begin circulating of fantastic creatures inhabiting the Mississippi delta as humans evacuate to the north. Rumors surface that Ben has landed in Louisiana, in the town Max and Ben grew up in together. Max Carver made it back to America in time to be with Talisha and witness the birth of their child, Charlotte, but he was unsuccessful in stopping Ben Belloc from leaving he Amazon with the Colony technology. A mass human and animal exodus to the north is underway even as the global electronics and power and communications grids have been destroyed. Global sea levels rose by five feet, temperatures by ten degrees.
A month ago, the supernova Aeon detonated in the skies over Antarctica.
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